Quotes About Dependence

To utter this prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is to renounce our national identity and recognize our true identity as a son or daughter of the God of peace, our beloved Father (and Mother), and a brother or sister of every human being on earth. With this prayer, we breathe in and out our dependence of God and God's Kingdom, and place our entire focus on the God of peace and God's kingdom.

Desmond Tutu: "God, without us, will not; as we, without God cannot.")

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .

No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

Footbal is very much an addiction for me. This is something that I really need in my life. This is something that if I don't have it, I'm not a very pleasant person to be around.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

For example, given that we depend on other people for our well-being and they depend on us, we have certain obligations towards each other; given that we have certain potentials the realization of which is good for us, potentials which require a certain amount of effort to realize, we have a duty to make that effort; and so forth.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources.

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Our dependence on culture means that our minds need to be open to others, so that we can learn from them.

If you are proud that God loves you, that He has given you great gifts, then you are acknowledging His existence and dependence on Him—and that is humility.

Only when we are convinced, like Mary was, of how little we can really do on our own and how utterly dependent we are on God can the Lord begin to act in magnificent ways in us and through us.

Make me, O Lord, thy spinning-wheel complete.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.