Quotes About Reliance

I'm on the road of least resistance I'd rather give up than give in to this So promise me only one thing, would you? Just don't ever make me promises No promises

She would have to depend on her brother, who had better intentions than ability when it came to coloring inside the lines.

A lie twice believed is self-deceived.

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn't also on the line.

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

The surest way to stay alive in the underworld was to make yourself indispensable.

I realize that you are probably still angry. That is pleasant to know. Much as your perpetual health, I have come to rely upon your dissatisfaction with me. It is one of the cosmere's great constants, I should think.

You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you.

The more alone you are," Waxillium said softly, "the more important it is to have someone you can rely upon.

But must not even a madman rely on his own mind, his own experience, rather than that of others?

That is good. I should not like to be maintained by one who lacks brain functions.

That made her valuable - and Reen had always said that the surest way to stay alive in the underworld was to make yourself indispensable

Dime la verdad —pidió Adolin—. Júramelo, Kaladin. Dime que esta noche deberíamos dejarte solo. Quiero que me lo jures.

She wasn't afraid of people in need because she wasn't afraid of needing others," my mom explained. "She didn't mind extending kindness to others, because she herself relied on the kindness of others." My mom and I didn't need to unpack the emotion behind that story. We both understood what MeeMaw had that we didn't: The capacity to receive.

To grow to adulthood as a social species, including humans, is not to become autonomous and solitary, it's to become the one on whom others can depend.

And that's the way the Father of Jesus is: He loves those most who need Him most, who rely on Him, depend upon Him and trust Him in everything. Little He cares whether you've been as pure as St. John or as sinful as the prostitute in Simon the Pharisee's house. All that matters is trust. It seems to me that learning how to trust God defines the meaning of Christian living. God doesn't wait until we have our moral life in order before He starts loving us.

Abandonment is the triumph of trust in our lives.

What Jesus longs to see in radical disciples is what he saw in little children: a spirit of sheer receptivity, utter dependence, and radical reliance on the power and mercy and grace of God mediated through the Spirit of Christ. He said, "Apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).

One has to be able to trust people. Or rather, one has to be able to rely on one's own judgement.

trust is to allow for hope.

Many mature, successful men in this life often might still treat God as part of themselves. God is the factotum which comes in handy in times of illness, shock, final exams, in every situation in which we feel insecure. And if it does not work, the only reaction may be to cry louder. Far from becoming the Other, whose existence does not depend on mine, he might remain the easy frame which fits best around the edges of my security.