Quotes about Need

Nothing is more obvious than the need for change. Nothing is less obvious than what needs to change and how that change happens.

God's provision simply can't be reduced to answers and strategies because his provision is tied to his presence. God knows that our need is much bigger and deeper than what we think will satisfy it. So he not only gives us practical advice, he gives us himself.

People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

So the call to "give an account" is, first, not a call to beat unwilling people into intellectual submission, but to be the servant of those in need, often indeed the servant of those who are in the grip of their own intellectual self-righteousness and pride, usually reinforced by their social surroundings.

The life without lack is known by those who have learned how to trust God in the moment of their need.

Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

He could not hear either; the galloping mare was almost upon him before he heard her, and even then he held his course, as if the very urgency of his wild grief and need must in a moment more find him wings

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.