Quotes About Need

The clergymen call us sinners, conceived and born in sin. Bah! What confounded nonsense that is. Is it a sin to love, to feel the need for love, not to be able to live without love? I consider a life without love a sinful and immoral state.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this—with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell.

Hunger allows no choice.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I best learn about my own need for faith during its absence. God's invisibility guarantees I will experience times of doubt. Everyone dangles on a pendulum that swings from belief to unbelief, back to belief, and ends - where?

Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They must turn somewhere for strength, and sometimes they go through life relying on their natural gifts. But there's a chance, just a chance, that people who lack such natural advantages may cry out to God in their time of need.

Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

I need God more than anything I might get from God.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

All because he had tried to rescue a beautiful, vacuous girl from a dragon. In folklore, such a hero always received a most intriguing reward. In reality, the hero was as likely as not to find himself in need of rescue…

mira si no es más bien necesario que el que desea le falte la cosa que desea, o bien que no la desee si no le falta.

Eros is] far from being delicate and beautiful, as most people think; on the contrary it is crude and harsh, it walks barefooted, it is homeless, it always sleeps on the floor, on a hard surface, it sleeps outside at night, beside doors and pathways. . . it is always in a state of need.

Nor was it the normal, portentous intimacy of twenty-year-olds: [...] although we were at the age when one always has the need, instinct, and immodesty of inflicting on one another everything that swarms in one's head and elsewhere (and this is an age that can last long, but ends with the first compromise)...

And now, when he needed a brother more than at any time in his life, he was not even sure he possessed a friend.

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go. Ooh, me, too, Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. What? It's what girls do. Get over it.