#sufficiency

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

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#independence #self-sufficiency #goal-setting

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #art

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#concept #continually #exile #loneliness #me

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#god #man #men #nor #sufficiency

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. ↗

— William Nicholson

#god #salvation #self-sufficiency #salvation

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. ↗

— Starr Ambrose

#self-sufficiency #marriage