Quotes About Dependence

Me without you is like Pepsi without cans. Pedophiles without vans. Jersey shore without tans.

I just can't imagine being me without you.

If we won't live together, we shouldn't live at all.

There are certain things we cannot fix on our own. Let God in.

God, please teach me never to forget on my BEST days, that I still desperately need you as I did on my WORSE days.

If you ask me, what a person needs most important in his life, I would say a true friend which I can count on. A true friend is the air we breath, they sustain our life.

One must be willing to minimize their dependence on others, and just rely upon God, faith, and their own heart in order to keep climbing higher in life.

The bad news is, life isn't easy. The good news is, you don't have to depend on yourself. You can rely on God.

I had to wait for my companion.

I watched him hang on the other man's words. He is too trusting. But I would not be the raven on his shoulder all the time, predicting gloom.

I don't ever want to make the mistake of needing him as much as or more than he needs me. But there's no denying that sometimes, when we sleep together in the dark cavern of the bottom bunk, his big brother thrashing around on top, the white noise machine grinding out its fake rain, the green digital clock announcing every hour, Iggy's small body holds mine.

In place of an exhausting autonomy, there is the blunt admittance of dependence, and its subsequent relief. I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.

I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me. Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways. Falling asleep I thought, 'Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God.

How were they to know that Hamnet was the pin holding them together? That without him they would all fragment and fall apart, like a cup shattered on the floor?

Again, "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give--but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises, to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2).

Whether or not Yuki-san needs you, whether or not he needs Seguchi-san, or whether he needs anybody at all only he can say. And you won't know unless you ask.

The worst of it was that there was no easy way to act against witches, or escape them. It didn't matter how detested Hugh and Mary had become: there they were, following the same routines, persistently present - not predators to be trapped or Indians to be shot at, or even homicidal colonists who could be dragged into court. They were ordinary neighbours, difficult to shun in a social world of mutual dependence.

Only one person cared if I lived or died. He'd done so much for me in the past and now it was my turn to do something for him.

This world is full of sheeple, not people, all longing to be told what to do, how to think. Sheeple who are lost without someone to follow. And you know the best part? Even when most of them know they're being led over a cliff, they'll still follow because it's less effort than thinking for themselves. It's the human condition.

Nicht unsere ausgereckte Bettlerhand, sondern das, womit Gott sie füllt, darauf kommt's an. Und das heißt eben, zunächst nicht wir und unser Tun, sondern zunächst Gott und Gottes Tun.

Ich glaube, daß Gott uns in jeder Notlage soviel Widerstandskraft geben will, wie wir brauchen. Aber er gibt sie nicht im voraus, damit wir uns nicht auf uns selbst, sondern auf ihn verlassen.

Marry me, love me, above all, look after me. somebody had to be responsible for her, besides herself. That was what women had been led to expect and hardly any price was too high. Loneliness, heartache, denial, all grist to the mill.

from the moment I understood that it was impossible for me to do anything by myself, the task you imposed upon me no longer appeared difficult. I felt that the only thing necessary [10]was to unite myself more and more to Jesus and that "all things will be given to you besides.