The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener,… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
The free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family, and the community. It discriminates… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary. — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. — David Platt Copy Share Image
“He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
