Quotes about Dependency

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

It is impossible for you to have a need that I cannot meet.

In its death throes, we see religion clinging to morality, whose mother it would like to pretend to be. In vain! — genuine morality is dependent on no religion, although religion sanctions and thereby sustains it.

She taught me that women who want without needing are expensive and sometimes wasteful, but women who need without wanting are dangerous — they suck you in and pretend not to notice.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

We are nothing mankind is all

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism,Christianity would not exist

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

The trap the enemy wants us to fall into is worshiping the blessings rather than the Blessor.

and I think, concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.

Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done. Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.