Sufficiency Quotes

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Rocky, if I’ve learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it’s that no one can take care of me better than I can.

Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Down close to certain flowersall excesses are sufficiencies

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.

If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.

it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies

Equip yourself for your own needs.

A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.