cadetjoecool I see that you are searching for answers to life’s big questions and trying to be open to different ways of looking at things. That’s good as long as you retain a healthy dose of skepticism. There are too many hucksters out there trying to sell you on the idea that they have all the answers. I don’t believe anyone has all the answers.
We can’t be sure what Jesus said (and I know those who believe in literal biblical truth will disagree with me) because Jesus did not write the bible. We have an account of what he said which is secondhand. There are some who will try to say that he didn’t even exist as a real person. I do believe he existed. There are some who will say that he was a great prophet but he wasn’t (isn’t) God. To be honest, I hate to admit it, but I am one of those who isn’t sure. I don’t feel like I need to decide. What I do know is that I agree with many of the teachings attributed to Jesus in the bible. Many, not all. So I choose to live according to what I believe because I can’t be sure what he really said, and even if he said something, he may not be right. Ultimately I have to be the judge of it.
Law of attraction seems like the prettied up version of Positive Thinking I would call it Wishful thinking. See, the thing is, we want to believe these things wholeheartedly sometimes because it gives us more of a feeling of control. Feeling in control makes life less scary. But if we believe the positive part of law of attraction, we also have to buy into the negative aspects of it.To say that someone attracts sickness to them because they think of sickness and pain is just wrong, wrong, wrong!! Susan Sontag wrote a whole book about this blaming sick people for being sick. It’s called Illness as Metaphor
This had an effect on me as far as understanding how my thoughts can create a dynamic that helps me or hurts me and how to change damaging thought patterns. The advice I think, IMHO, is better than the new age mumbo-jumbo called Law of Attraction.
Here and are some of the things that I agree with in Jesus’ teaching. As far as your question goes I think many of the quotes already cited are good ones to support the idea that Jesus said he would help us to do what we cannot do on our own. But maybe he didn’t mean he would do it for us so much as he meant he would be there to help us and give us strength do it for ourselves.