Quotes About Dependence

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

You can't ever leave me," he heard himself say. It was the look. The look that he couldn't possibly find anywhere else. The look that told him that he was the center of this man's world and would remain so.

When the need for someone else's love or approval outweighs one's own, self-betrayal is near.

Dependence begets subservience and venality," he wrote. There was something romantic, too, in Jefferson's attachment to farming: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." Influenced by

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord. Otherwise, we tend to forget about entreating him. For some reason we want to carry on by ourselves. H

God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.

There will be more Christlikeness in us only when we humble ourselves and say, 'God, I can't live the life you meant for me on my own. I don't have the love, wisdom, or power. But come, Holy Spirit, and pour it into me. Teach me what it means to walk in the Spirit.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Now we move out again, the horses slipping down off the knoll, following the People, who follow the buffalo, who follow the grass, which springs from the earth.

Dependence on the pastor turns the church inward instead of keeping its focus on reaching out. Everyone knows that the addition of more people threatens this great relationship with the pastor and creates competition between parishioners for the pastor's time.

Necesito la gracia de Dios para hacer algo que valga la pena. Ni siquiera puedo levantarme a la mañana y enfrentar el día sin su ayuda.

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

I don't think you realize how different it is for me than for you. You can make your way by your own wits and claws, while I must always be dependent on some male to protect me. Wits I may have, but claws I am without, and while hands are useful for writing and fine work they are no use in a battle.

A home-bound woman who depends on bridge clubs and shopping sprees for amusement has only half a personality.

The psychological tragedy is that when one turns to others for constant recognition, validation, and approval, one cannot hold onto one's own experiences as measurements of success emanating from external reality

Before I started this journey, I depended on myself for almost everything. Now I ask Dominic and the other angels to take care of it all. I know they will because they serve God, and God wants me to accomplish what he put me on Earth to do. He wants the same for you.

I need to know," we tell ourselves. "No," God answers softly, "You need to trust.

When we're distracted and discouraged, tired and overwhelmed, there is no better place to go than to our Father. He alone has what we need. Don't snivel under a broom tree. Don't hide in a broom closet. Go to the Lord and let him sweep away your discouragement.

I'd tried to find someone else, but it was like he'd broken me, destroying every chance for happiness away from his touch. God, but I hated him for that.