Quotes About Interdependence

When one considers how necessary the honeybee is to life on earth, it puts the arrogant pretentions of mankind into a proper context.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

In all societies people depend so much on one another that hardly any human action is entirely complete in itself, or is performed without some reference to the actions of others that are needed if the action is to produce what the agent intends.

God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.

I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She's only doing good if your daughter's doing good. We're all one family.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.