Quotes About Dependence

We cannot do it without Him. He will not do it without us.

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe.

El amor es un estado de Ser. Tu amor no está fuera; está en lo profundo de ti. Nunca puedes perderlo, no puede dejarte. No depende de otro cuerpo

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness, that is to say, dependent on form. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now — that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality. Slipping away from the present moment even for a second may mean death. Unfortunately, they come to depend on a particular activity to be in that state.

Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. (Ps. 86:1) O LORD, God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! (Ps. 88:1–2)

Well--there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in, of their own moral contempt for it and physical dependence on it, of his half-talents and her half-principles, of the something in them both that was not stout enough to resist nor yet pliant enough to yield.

She clung to him desperately, and as he drew her to his knees on the couch she felt as if they were being sucked down together into some bottomless abyss.

Not for the world would he have made a significant to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.

her husband a grown man, afraid to sleep alone in his own house, he who for many a year struck terror into her and Eleanora.

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have no attachment, except to their benefactor.

I must therefore depend on the Greeks, whose prejudices, in some degree, are subdued by their distress.

The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship. Look

Why didn't you just pray by faith?" He taught me one of the most important lessons of prayer: that prayer depended on God and his promises, not my own quixotic emotions.

God likes his people to be outnumbered because then there is no mistaking that he alone is the Deliverer.

Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?

Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God). The task God sets for us is to need them less and love them more. Instead of looking for ways to manipulate others, we will ask God what our duty is toward them.

observing the way the rig needed only occasional human intervention to stay locked on the road. Doubtless it could have managed with none at all, were it not for local union laws. Very

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

At work, either you will be telling a machine what to do or a machine will be telling you what to do.

Oh, Dios mío!, ¿qué harán esos infelices cuando yo ya no esté aquí?» Pero alzó los ojos al cielo, y se acusó de haber carecido de confianza, de haberse creído necesario para algo.

And because he had food, she followed him.

Parents existed to be used by their children.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.