Dependence Quotes

• The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Heaven, Ships

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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• You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, No Friends, Depends

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

  Paul Brunton

  Strength, Being Alone, Men

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• Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Betrayal

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  We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Knowledge

  "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

  James A. Garfield

  Brotherhood, Links, Common

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.561, Best Books on

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• We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Simple, Vines

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• We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Exercise, Self, Wind

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.143, Barbour Publishing

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• To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

  Matthew Henry

  Waiting, Desire, Delight

  Matthew Henry (1848). “Daily Communion with God: Christianity No Sect ; The Sabbath ; The Promises of God ; The Worth of the Soul ; A Church in the House”, p.102

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• It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Lying, Long, Doe

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• I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever do to true religion except by mistake! As to getting the law of the land to touch our religion, we earnestly cry, `Hands off! Leave us alone.' Your Sunday bills and all other forms of the act-of-Parliment religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Mistake, Sunday

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• Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be not self-sufficient . The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. God pours no power into man’s heart till man’s power is all poured out. Live, then, daily, a life of dependence on the grace of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Silly, Heart

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• Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Thinking, Kind, Should

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• [God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Gold, Want, Riches

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• A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Distance, Humble, Blessing

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.65, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

  Matthew Henry

  Dark, Events, May

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.946

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• Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

  George Washington

  Resources, Providence, All Time

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.403

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• Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Government, Our Generation

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

  Voltaire

  Real, Inequality, Misfortunes

  "Equality" by Voltaire, 1764.

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• Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Weakness, Spirit, Manifest

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.262, Discovery House

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• Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  People, Trying, Different

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• The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ideas, Independence, Accessories

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• The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

  Arnold Gesell

  Baby, Children, Selfish

  Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

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• It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Perfect, Attention, Capture

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• The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Entrepreneur, Asking, Answers

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