Quotes About Dependence

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

Donne had declared that no person is an island. He had it exactly wrong. We all are.

Caro mio, sono un uomo finito: ella può far di me ciò che vuole.

Our dependence on smell is revealed every time we have a cold; once the nose becomes stuffed up, we lose the capacity to taste anything, simply because we cannot smell it.

He asks too much to whom God is not sufficient.

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.

The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit

We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

All other comforts are temporary and illusory unless we depend wholly upon Christ. Therefore

He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it. The

looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

Is it not rather meant that it was placed far above us, in order to convince us of our utter feebleness?

unless God   feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will   be of no avail. Though

all those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God. Anyone

Thus, to have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. We

Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also

Não falamos diretamente à sua humanidade, mas a seu egoísmo, e nunca falamos com eles a respeito das nossas necessidades, mas das vantagens que eles terão. Ninguém, a não ser um mendigo, prefere depender da bondade de seus concidadãos.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss—you can't do it alone.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

But if the striving toil of self-effort is involved, it ceases to be faith.