Quotes About Need

When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

Sadly, rather than growing in a sense of need for and submission to the authority that God has placed in their lives, many children become emotional weathermen. They have come to understand that the rules of the house tend to change with the emotion of the parent who is present.

What you and I bring to our relationship with God is desperate spiritual and moral need.

It really is possible to live in a state of Advent schizophrenia, where you celebrate the birth of the Messiah while actively denying your need for his birth, life, death, and resurrection.

Corporate worship is designed to humble you by pointing out the depth of your need and enthrall you by pointing to the glory of God's provision.

The fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.

If a system could give us what we need, Jesus would never have come.

Your Lord pries open your hands and takes away your crutches and distractions. He exposes your weaknesses so that you will cry out for what he knows you need, but what you have been willing to live without.

It really does take grace to know how much you need grace.

The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

Face the fact today that you'll never outgrow your need for grace, no matter how much you learn and how much you mature, until you are on the other side and your struggle is over because sin is no more (see Phil. 3:12–16). The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

Every human being is in need of a king. All human beings need the rescue, forgiveness, justice, mercy, refuge, and protection that they are unable to give themselves.

No one gives grace better than a parent who humbly admits that he desperately needs it himself.

Many people will get up today and in some way will ask creation to be their savior, that is, to give them what only God is able to give.

Prayer is abandoning my righteousness, admitting my need for forgiveness, and resting in the grace of the cross of Jesus Christ.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

The physical world is full of many glories, but the pursuit of these glories must not rule my heart because they have no ability whatsoever to offer me the life that I so desperately need.

The tired expression, 'What we need is a good war' was common enough: 'a good war' that would preserve the old world, conservative certainties. In

For one thing, the victim role provides a sense of security by eliminating the need to change. It eliminates the need to even try.

Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany.

to live means to lack something at every moment

Crimes determined to take place engender all they need: victims, circumstances, pretexts, opportunities.