Quotes About Dependency

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.

Love is the use one makes of another.

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

I have nothing and no one but you, and you're useless. That's not a personal commentary. It's a statement of fact.

The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.

You can't blame the people in Greenloop for having their cupboards bare. The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.

You can't blame the people in Greenloop for having their cupboards bare. The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for c

The fault lies not in the eyes, but in the mind, a lazy thought process spoiled by a lifetime of optic nerve dependency. Not so for those like me.

God wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine. One is an extension of the other. It's impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends. The branch isn't connected only at the moment of bearing fruit. The gardener doesn't keep the branches in a box and then, on the day he wants grapes, glue them to the vine. No, the branch constantly draws nutrition from the vine. Separation means certain death.

A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks.

Worship is when you're aware that what you've been given is far greater than what you can give. Worship is the awareness that were it not for his touch, you'd still be hobbling and hurting, bitter and broken. Worship is the half-glazed expression on the parched face of a desert pilgrim as he discovers that the oasis is not a mirage.

You'll never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

Self-reliance? Yes, but that first spring I had to learn dependency too. By crying for help and seeing help come from several directions, I began to learn what the village is all about: on the one hand, respect for privacy, and on the other, awareness of each other's needs. So, however solitary some of us may look to an outsider, we are in truth part of an invisible web and supported by its presence.

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that's frightening.