Quotes About Need

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.

A shadow creeps along the wall More shadows sweep across the hall Many shadows leap and dance and fall But shadows need both dark and light No shadows crawl in blackest night

A child who misbehaves has a need. To overlook the need behind the misbehavior can prevent us from doing the right thing. Asking ourselves, "What can I do to correct my child's behavior?" often leads to thoughtless punishment. Asking, "What does my child need?" lets us proceed with confidence that we will handle the situation well.

Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need. For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardship our lot in life.

If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion—how can God's love be in that person? —1 John 3:17

When God's people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality. —Romans 12:13

The supreme law is the law of love, and it is loving, positive guidance that our children so desperately need.

The emotional need for love, however, is not simply a childhood phenomenon. That need follows us into adulthood and into marriage. The

They share freely and give generously to those in need. Their good deeds will be remembered forever. They will have influence and honor. —Psalm 112:9

We have a choice. We can simply defend what we have or create what we need.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

If if's and and's were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

the direct external calls on his judgment and sympathies brought the added impulse needed to draw him out of himself. It was not simply that beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly - it was a perpetual claim on the immediate fresh application of thought, and on the consideration of another's need and trial.

Many of us looking back through life would say that the kindest man we have ever known has been a medical man, or perhaps that surgeon whose fine tact, directed by deeply informed perception, has come to us in our need with a more sublime beneficence than that of miracle-workers

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,–this hunger of the heart,–as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

The God of love my shepherd is,            And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his,            What can I want or need?

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.