Quotes About Dependence

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Gratitude is complicated. Feelings of dependence—and interdependence—can be both elusive and resisted, mostly because they are caught up with soul-crushing ideas of obligation and debt. But if gratitude is mutual reliance upon (instead of payback for) shared gifts, we awaken to a profound awareness of our interdependence. Dependence may enslave the soul, but interdependence frees us.

As for Bessi, she spent her first human month in an incubator, with wires in her chest, limbs straggling and pleading like a beetle on its back. The incubator had a lot to answer for.

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What we do for the Lord is entirely dependent upon what we are in the Lord. Further, what we are in the Lord wholly depends upon what we receive from the Lord. And what we receive from the Lord is directly proportional to the time we spend alone with the Lord in prayer.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out.

God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?

They believe that a good intention already means a new beginning; they believe that on their own they can make a new start whenever they want. But that is an evil illusion: only God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God.

Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

And we can pray only when we realize that we cannot do anything, that we have reached our limit, that someone else must make that new beginning.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

Trust yourself as much you can do......Never trust anyone more than half of you does to yourself........

If I, the boiling water, And you, the tea; Then your fragrance Has to depend solely upon my plainness.... I have to be hot, even boiled Before we consume each other....

So weit ist es jetzt also schon gekommen, denkt sie, während sie die Ergebnisse überfliegt - Wir brauchen Google, um unsere Eltern zu finden.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.