Quotes About Dependence

The Lord will take care of me. – Psalm 27:10

All my springs are in You. – Psalm 87:7

Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about."9

The psalmist David understood what it was to fret and fear; in Psalm 61:2, he cried, "From the end of the earth I will cry to You, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

He . . . fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD . – Deuteronomy 8:3

As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand. – Jeremiah 18:6

To have faith in Christ is to trust him.

The theory of dependence will take the wrong path and lead to deception if the analysis is not put within the framework of the worldwide class struggle.

Estimado señor, le ruego que deje de creer en mí.

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

Sure can. Just ask the computer. That thing will do just about everything but polish your shoes." By eight-fifteen

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He walked as he'd learned to walk, with only a minimal limp, back straight, head held high in confidence rather than cockiness. He walked like a man who had learned to lean into God for whatever strenth he needed.

He would have to trust God for that, for he was helpless to do anything about it himself. His grandfather had said that was always the best place to be. At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

God, help me. I don't want to be afraid all the time. I['m tired of it. So tired of it.

Without trust, there is no commitment. And

Dex's mother knew what it was to lose herself in someone brighter, to be trapped by the gravitational field of another sun. She knew what happened when it emerged that the sun was only a lightbulb, and what happened when the lightbulb burned out.

Nor can man raise himself above himself and humanity, for he cannot see but with his eyes nor grasp except with his grip. He will raise himself if God extraordinarily gives him his hand; he will raise himself, abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himself be lifted and sustained by purely celestial ones. <>

That, in my view, is the truth in socialism, the truth of our mutual dependence, and of the need to do what we can to spread the benefits of social membership to those whose own efforts do not suffice to obtain them.

Do you honestly think I am going to let you die? I need you-as many of you as I can save.

In a moment, she would be gone, taking with her my chance of obtaining some answers on which my life might depend.

And, in any case, the idea of independence was a fantasy. Everyone depended on someone.

To expend oneself, to bestir oneself for an impenetrable object is pure religion. To make the other into an insoluble riddle on which my life depends is to consecrate the other as a god; I shall never manage to solve the question the other asks me, the lover is not Oedipus. Then all that is left for me to do is to reverse my ignorance into truth.

Askesis is addressed to the other: turn back, look at me, see what you have made of me. It is a blackmail: I raise before the other the figure of my own disappearance, as it will surely occur, if the other does not yield.