Quotes About Need

But the need for justice is like ownership or love. Feeding it only makes it grow.

He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.

Bottomless need. What Miss Rosa didn't seem to understand was that this accurately described not only most children but also the scared child that lived, at least part of the time, deep inside most adults.

Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn't. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don't, they'll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.

We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active and change something in order to survive.

All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.

The dumb little fuck was supposed to be so goddamn sensitive, how come he couldn't figure it out? All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.

They both had that in common, the desire to be needed, to know that they made someone's life a little better.

Don't apologize. I wasn't- Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.

But Wilson was an idealist who believed that the force of righteousness would overcome all obstacles. He underestimated the need to flatter, cajole, and seduce.

Contigo, la necesitaba —dijo Sonja.

If you let your emotions get high, your bargaining power will be low. Make sure you don't negotiate from a position of need when making a deal.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.