Quotes About Need

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.

Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.

Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better. ... LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

invention inevitably followed a four-step sequence: Awareness of an unfulfilled need; Recognition of something contradictory or absent in existing attempts to meet the need, which Usher called an "incomplete pattern"; An all-at-once insight about that pattern; and A process of "critical revision" during which the insight is tested, refined, and perfected.

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need.

There is no virtue like necessity.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen

Anything that exceeds our need becomes worldly, "Egyptian," something of Pharaoh, and it frustrates us from the economy of God's purpose....Our living and our existence depend on the provision from the heavenly source, not on the supply from the world.

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything and is, therefore, a particularly compelling symbol of civilisation. (Attributed to Ralph Caplan)

Now he longer felt any need to use taste as the bricks and mortar for a structure called "individuality

Now he no longer felt any need to use taste as the bricks and mortar for a structure called "individuality.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.

The President had not come to ask for help. He did not want help. He did not need help. The President had not come to beg. He did not want charity. He did not need charity. The President had come only to hold them to their word. To have them keep their promises. Honour their pledges. The president had come only to collect. To collect what was his.

Maybe to some, the removal of recognition sounds disrespectful. The true issue is not whether you choose to use a title or not. The true issue is whether you need it—whether you have to have it. The Pharisees required it, and Jesus pointed out that this is one mark of a false spiritual leader.

What good is freedom, Mrs. Helm, if you never do anything unusual or odd? That's what freedom means—doing whatever you need to do so long as nobody else is hurt by it. That's what you were talking about before, doing things that conflict with your sense of yourself in other rooms of your mind. You have to be able to do that or you're not really alive.

Religionists have a perceived need, planted there as a part of the brainwashing they've received. They need no religion, but they think they do, because religion has convinced them of it.

Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in the fish he seeks; with each cast properly made, we will bring what we need to us, but first we must hurl ourselves into the depths without knowing just what lies beneath us.

when a person actually needs something or somebody, that's when you can truly read the gauge that contains character.