Quotes About Dependence

Dad, I don't know why I'm still alive... Because God took pity on me, Kimberly. Because without you, I think I would've gone insane.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

I am simply not enough in myself, but in Him I am. This surrender is not weakness, but the only true measure of strength any of us have.