Quotes About Dependency

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

We are the slaves of slaves

We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.

In a society in which everyone is assumed and expected to be economically self-sufficient, as an example, doesn't economic dependency almost automatically mean poverty? No attention is given to such issues.)

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

So when Mother goes away, baby feels that the one person who can make him feel right has completely disappeared, perhaps forever. Baby just can't hang on to a mental picture of Mother to reassure himself, and he can't understand the concept of time, so "Mom will be back in an hour" means nothing to him.

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

You take my house when you do take the propThat doth sustain my house; you take my lifeWhen you do take the means whereby I live.

Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,That sucks the nurse asleep?