Quotes about Dependency

If Your Presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here!

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

Because we make use of machinery in the belief we can increase the range of our freedom, and instead only decrease it, we use machines against ourselves.

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.