Quotes about Needs
She began by reminding me of the scriptural injunction that the ox grinding the corn must not be kept from enjoying the grain. Did I think God felt less about His human workers? Hadn't I better examine myself to be sure I was not nursing a Sacrificial Spirit? Wasn't I claiming to depend upon God, but living as if my needs would be met by my own scrimping?
— Brother Andrew
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
— Shane Claiborne
True generosity is measured not by how much we give away but by how much we have left, especially when we look at the needs of our neighbors. We have no right not to be charitable. The early Christians taught that charity is merely returning what we have stolen. In the seventeenth century, St. Vincent de Paul said that when he gives bread to the beggars, he gets on his knees and asks forgiveness from them.
— Shane Claiborne
Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the other is in the audience.
— Ayn Rand
It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.
— Barack Obama
A wife had greater wants, naturally, and could do nothing to help her own situation.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Satisfied needs do not motivate.
— Stephen Covey
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
— Stephen Covey
Our basic human needs and capacities to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy.
— Stephen Covey
To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.
— Olivia Newton-John
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
— John Piper
Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
— Joni Eareckson Tada