Quotes About Dependence

People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can't really survive as whole individuals without it.

Throwing down your staff is letting go and letting God. And that's counterintuitive for those of us who are control freaks. As our executive pastor Joel Schmidgall likes to say, "You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.

All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn't our job; it is God's job.

So thank God for opposition. It forces us to pray like it depends on god, which it does. And it reconditions our reflexes in the process.

They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.

until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.

Necesitamos tener sueños del tamaño de Dios, porque son las únicas cosas que nos harán caer de rodillas y nos mantendrán en una dependencia absoluta con respecto a Dios, tal como era nuestro destino. ¿Te puedo confiar una convicción

Necesitamos tener sueños del tamaño de Dios, porque son las únicas cosas que nos harán caer de rodillas y nos mantendrán en una dependencia absoluta con respecto a Dios, tal como era nuestro destino.

When we pray, we relieve ourselves of responsibility. We let go and let God. We take our hands off and put our concerns into the hands of Almighty God. And trust me, He can handle whatever we put in His hands.

We need to work like it depends on us, but we also need to pray like it depends on God. That's what consecration is all about. It's letting God do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. And that's how God gets all the glory. Consecration is a complete surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ. We relinquish everything to God - our time, talent, and treasure. It's a complete divestiture. But the exchange rate is unbelievable.

After we pray like it depends on God, we need to work like it depends on us. But if we don't pray first, our work won't work.

Después de orar como si todo dependiera de Dios, necesitamos trabajar como si dependiera de nosotros.

Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107

The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.

Il loro valore economico globale per l'agricoltura è stato stimato in 217 miliardi di dollari nel 2008, in quanto circa un terzo di tutte le coltivazioni beneficia o dipende in maniera esclusiva dall'impollinazione da parte degli insetti, in particolare dalle api.

However, the erosion of individual sovereignty, free will, and self-sufficiency necessarily give way to dependence, conformity, and finally tyranny.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn't he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster's cage was clean, I'd be happy to oblige.