Sentences with phrase «dependence upon something»

Gradually breaking this total dependence upon you is the key.

Our goodness is a response to His, and exists only in dependence upon it.

It was the way He guided me to a greater understanding of dependence upon Him, of surrendering my desires and plans, and of what it means to simply trust.

The spring growth that he looked for in hope was a new growth, very like the previous spring's growth in appearance and having a great dependence upon it, yet essentially new all the same.

«By the grace of God,» we say, thus paying sometimes a half - conscious tribute in secular speech to our ultimate dependence upon Him.

Hundreds of years of Christian preaching have taken place in such a context; and while it is properly asserted that the erosion from the mind even of the church of the rich referents traditionally clustered about the Easter narratives makes dependence upon them questionable, it must nevertheless be pointed out that a process can be reversed.

When things are going rightly, toward actualizing their potentiality, the achievement is not independent of other occasions but in real dependence upon them.

If mother has to leave sooner, we can encourage her that, even if he never takes that bottle, her baby's dependence upon her as sole source of nutrition does wane in time.

Natural systems will not, as a general rule, be protected or enhanced by the expansion of humankind's dependence upon them for sustenance and well - being.

The Old Testament was there, and the Church grew up in dependence upon it.

Even though the unconditional reciprocity which belongs to the relation between the parents because they have covenanted with one another does not pertain to the parent - child relationship, the child does owe full obedience to his parents during the time of his dependence upon them.

It is not because He doesn't know what we want, or doesn't know what we need, but He wants us to express our dependence upon Him.

There are traces of near deification, even before his death, or at least a dependence upon him which ordinarily is reserved for deity.

The recent threat to shut down the Department of Homeland Security for those of us in the North Country, given our proximity to the US / Canadian border and our dependence upon it, is truly troubling.

Nearly 14 % of these people meet the criteria for abuse of, or dependence upon it.