Quotes about Dependence
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.
- George Washington
My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I trust men only because I trust God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.
- Brian Tracy
We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
- Edith Stein
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
- Jonathan Edwards
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
- Pope Benedict XVI
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness.
- David Platt