Dependence Quotes - Page 2

• Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Success, Christian, Jesus

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• We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Hurt, Truth

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• Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity.

  Noah Webster

  Success, Bible, Education

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• If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Truth, Obnoxious

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2016

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• The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

  Jim Cymbala

  Religious, Time, Prayer

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2015

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• The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Weakness, Spirit, Moments

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.271, Discovery House

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• We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.

  David Platt

  Years, Months, Spirit

  Twitter post from May 21, 2015

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• When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Jesus, Mean, Emotional

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• To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

  William Wordsworth

  Humble, Character, Two

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• The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.

  Josip Broz Tito

  War, Italian, Yugoslavia

  "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.

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• Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Humble, Needs

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.133, SPCK

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• If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Fall, Love Life, Humility

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• [Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Principles, Frozen, Action

  "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.

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• Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.

  John Hancock

  God, Christian, Men

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• The American dream is at jeopardy. This president [Obama] has defined the American dream as more dependence on the government. We need to restore the American dream so it's more about opportunity and growth and not redistribution.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

  "Meet the Press Transcript". www.nbcnews.com. November 16, 2014.

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• I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

  Luther Burbank

  Struggle, Race, Atheism

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• the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the "objective order of things" (on economic laws, the market etc.).

  Herbert Marcuse

  Order, Law, Etc

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.147, Routledge

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• Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.

  Muriel Fox

  Marriage, Real, Romance

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• Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Feelings

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• By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

  Robert Genn

  Photography, Teaching, Danger

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• All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Needs, Trouble

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.

  Rick Warren

  Integrity, Humble, Humility

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