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Quotes about Dependency

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.
- Barbara Johnson
Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
Andrew Murray wrote, "In creating man with a free will and making him a partner in the rule of the earth, God limited himself. He made himself dependent on what man would do. Man by his prayer would hold the measure of what God could do in blessing" (emphasis added).2
- Jerry Bridges
It does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.
- Jerry Bridges
God sustains you and me: "He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.... `For in him we live and move and have our being"' (Acts 17:25,28). He supplies our daily food (see 2 Corinthians 9:10). Our times are in His hands (see Psalm 31:15). Every breath we breathe is a gift from God, every bite of food we eat is given to us from His hand, every day we live is determined by Him.
- Jerry Bridges
Whenever a leader tries to build job security by making himself indispensable to the organization, he in fact does the organization a disservice. Job security is too often based on someone's insecurity.
- Andy Stanley
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.
- Aldous Huxley
When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.
- Donald Whitney
I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.
- Francis Chan
You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.
- AW Tozer