Quotes about Dependency

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person. That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said. All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it. But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

There are days technology is a complete bother.

But a girl should never get over needing her mother.

But he knows that no man is an island.

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother's milk.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.

We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.