Quotes About Dependence

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

There was an excuse for everything these days. Except it meant someone else picking up the pieces.

I like that I am needed, that I am beholden to somebody.

Reevie . . . I feel wasted." Her head sways from side to side, her hair hanging in her face. "Will you please take me home?" I peer at her. She's had, like, two beers. I've seen her finish a six-pack in under an hour and not get tipsy.

I could not have done it without you.

two of you were too busy stuffing your faces with pizza and he didn't want to interrupt. But I don't dare. I can't afford to burn any bridges with those two. Once they decide to freeze you out, you're done for. I've seen it happen. I'm hanging off the side of a precipice as it is, and the only thing keeping me there is Elaine. I look at her, and she shakes her head slightly.

How was it possible to hate him so much and still need him so much at the same time?

He was Pinocchio to my Gepetto.

Without me you can do nothing.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

It scared me to need anyone so much. if our souls became inextricably tangled, would mine still be mine? Did I care?

It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything.

To will and to run are mine, but they will cease to be mine unless God brings me His continual aid.

Quand j'étais petite, je gardais les vaches; maintenant ce sont elles qui me gardent…

Our goal in the pursuit of godliness should be to grow more in our conscious awareness that every moment of our lives is lived in the presence of God; that we are responsible to Him and dependent on Him. This goal would include a growing desire to please Him and glorify Him in the most ordinary activities of life. Of

Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and depending on Him in prayer.

If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always dependent on God's grace, His undeserved favor to those who deserve His wrath. Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.

This is what faith is -trusting in Jesus Christ alone as one's Savior.