Quotes about Dependence

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Secondly, a thing is said to preserve another 'per se' and directly, namely, when what is preserved depends on the preserver in such a way that it cannot exist without it. In this manner all creatures need to be preserved by God. For the being of every creature depends on God, so that not for a moment could it subsist, but would fall into nothingness were it not kept in being by the operation of the Divine power, as Gregory says (Moral. xvi).

Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.

We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

Never plead your merits before God. Plead mercy. It is mercy we need. We need it from first to last, and we need it every single day.

Our present condition, is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independance contending for dependance.