Quotes about Desperation
The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving...Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'm bankrupt without love.
— Eugene Peterson
Of all evils, indeed, famine is the worst, and it destroys nothing so effectively as shame. For that which under other circumstances is worthy of respect, in the midst of famine is despised. Thus women snatched the food from the very mouths of their husbands and children, from their fathers, and what was most pitiable of all, mothers from their babes. And while their dearest ones were wasting away in their arms, they were not ashamed to take away from them the last drops that supported life.
— Eusebius of Caesarea
He said that God has closed up the realm of the miraculous to me, not as punishment, but to draw me into the desperation needed to maintain it as a lifestyle once I received my breakthrough.
— Bill Johnson
God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!
— Joyce Meyer
My body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water. Psalm 63:1
— Beth Moore
She said to herself, " If I can just touch His robe, I'll be made well!" Matthew 9:21
— Beth Moore
Man stands on the brink of hell. The forces building up in our world are so overwhelming that man everywhere is beginning to cry out in desperation: "What must I do to be saved?
— Billy Graham
Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.
— Billy Graham
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
— Margaret Atwood
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
— Graham Greene
When you have a desperate love for God,' Father Micheal would say, 'the comforts of this world feel like paper flowers. They are easily put aside. If you really have God's love.
— Ted Dekker