Quotes about Interdependence
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.
— Rick Warren
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
A man is related to all nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
— Barack Obama
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
— Hildegard of Bingen
Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.
— Mark Driscoll
God without us will not as we without God cannot.
— St. Augustine
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
— Bob Goff
We are God's gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.
— Jack Canfield
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
— St. Basil
I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
— Donald Miller