Quotes About Needy

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

A needy God could end up destroying the universe one day. God is the Absolute. This means that he does not change and that he does not need anything from His creations.

But then you can't hope for much justice in the subcontinent, where fulfillment comes to very few among the needy and restless millions, and where aspiration itself can feel like a luxury. In Kashmir, isolated and oppressed and then dragged into the larger world of competing men and nations and murderous ideologies, more people have been confronted with this awareness in the last ten years than in all of its tormented modern history.

False religion does not need a Savior. False religion is rooted in human righteousness. Rather than being broken, needy, poor in spirit, crying out for divine rescue, it comforts itself in evidences of its own righteousness.

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship. To be wise, you first need to be rescued from you. You need to be given a new heart, one that is needy, humble, seeking, and ready to get from above what you can't find on this earth. And then you need to be brought into a relationship with the One who is wisdom.

I mean you should look every day for every opportunity to point your needy kids to the presence, promises, power, and grace of Jesus.

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.