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Quotes About Need

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
~ Sargent Shriver
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need.
~ Ai Weiwei
Any day that is not crowned with the Christian being consciously and conspicuously filled with the Holy Spirit is a wasted day. It will be lost for all eternity. At the judgment seat of Christ it will, at best, be counted as wood, hay, and stubble (1 Corinthians 3:12). What golden opportunities we let slip through our fingers because the Spirit is not in control. There has never been a greater day or age to witness for Christ than ours. There is such a need and such a hunger everywhere.
~ Adrian Rogers
Let there be less suffering . . . give us the sense to live on what we need.
~ Aeschylus
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where ordinary life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
~ Alain de Botton
Doyurulmay? bekleyen gereksinimler kimi zaman halüsinasyonlar doÄŸurur: Susuzluk suyu hayal eder, aÅŸka duyulan gereksinim de ideal bir erkek ya da kad?n?.
~ Alain de Botton
Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.
~ Alan Cohen
perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last darkness there might not be the same need of understanding anything so far away as the world anymore.
~ Derek Raymond
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures," "priestly men," "authoritative personalities" springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our greatest need is not for a better income or a more appealing body, but for salvation.
~ Dillon Burroughs
And me who seem curious because no one has seen me for a million years, and now I'm seen! Is there such extraordinary need of misery to make beauty? Let go Hell; and your fall will be broken by the roof of Heaven.
~ Djuna Barnes
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
~ Dogen Zenji
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
~ Gerald May
I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.
~ Millard Fuller
Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything
~ Catherine Marshall
Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
~ Harmon Killebrew
Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
~ H. G. Wells
I like that I am needed, that I am beholden to somebody.
~ Jenny Han
Without me you can do nothing.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
The money buys the drugs, the drugs work harder and harder to trick your blackened dopamine receptors into giving a damn about living. At some point you make a choice: fight your need the rest of your goddamned long-suffering life, or fill your need until it disappears into the grave with you.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
~ Jerry Bridges