Quotes about Dependency

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member.

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

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.

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.

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.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

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.

When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.