Quotes About Dependence

If you take credit as a leader instead of assigning credit to the one who sent you and who alone produces fruit out of your labors, you will praise less, pray less, and plan more.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

La confianza es estar tan convencido de que puedes apoyarte en la integridad, fortaleza, carácter y fidelidad de la otra persona que estás dispuesto a ponerte bajo el cuidado de él o ella.

You didn't do it, and the sooner you understand that, the better it will be for you and your marriage. You couldn't have done it. You're simply not that powerful and not that wise. You and I like to think that it was all our initiative, but it wasn't. When you face the fact that your marital story is all about the wisdom and will of Another, your understanding of marriage completely changes forever.

Many people will get up today and in some way will ask creation to be their savior, that is, to give them what only God is able to give.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

Everything that was created was made by God and for God. All the glories of the created world were designed to point to his glory. The universe is his, designed to function according to his purpose and plan. That includes you and me. We were not made to live independent, self-directed lives. We were not meant to exist according to our own little self-oriented plans, living for our own moments of glory. No, we were created to live for him.

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Yun often tells me, "We are absolutely nothing. We have nothing to be proud about. We have no abilities and nothing to offer God. The fact that he chooses to use us is only due to his grace. It has nothing to do with us. If God should choose to raise up others for his purpose and never use us again we would have nothing to complain about.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions; and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.

The only way for natural selection to make human babies with larger skulls was to end gestation prematurely and allow them to be born in a state of dependence that no other animal (except marsupials) could possibly manage. So to the costs of feeding large-brained babies must be added the costs of protecting them, and protecting them requires sophisticated social arrangements.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

La saveur des fruits d'un arbre ne dépend pas de la figure du paysage qui l'environne, mais de la richesse invisible du terrain.

Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

i liked feeling strong and was uncomfortable knowing that had vanished whne he left. was my happiness so completely tied to him now that i could only feel like myself when he was near? i had no idea.

Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?

Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near? I had no idea.

We can't forget that I owe you my life." She gazed at him. "We can't forget that I belong to you." "I like that sound of that," Alexander said, hugging her tighter.

Underneath his battle armor, the man who commanded an armored battalion needed her. If he was wounded, she could bandage him. If he was hungry, she could feed him. If he wanted to talk to her, there she was.

If someone is giving us something, thats because were incapable of getting it for ourselves.