Quotes about Need

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God—it whets our appetite. Our need for God is not taken care of by engaging in worship—it deepens. It overflows the hour and permeates the week.

God has chosen to veil Himself in just the right measure so that our wills and intellects could be shaped by our allegiance to Him. He is there for anyone humble enough to recognize his or her personal need. He is also subtle enough to be ignored by those who are filled with themselves.

Memorial stones that we put before God—in the form of prayer and generosity—remind Him of our condition, our need, and our obedience.

The measure we are aware of our need for Him is usually the measure we become aware of Him. It really is all about the Presence. It's about hosting Him.

Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.

Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.

God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

Love is needing to be loved.

Our need for love does not constitute anyone else's call but God's.

When we pray, we bring that power to bear upon everything we are praying about, and we allow the power of God to work through our powerlessness. When we pray, we are humbling ourselves before God and saying, "I need Your presence and Your power, Lord. I can't do this without You." When we don't pray, it's like saying we have no need of anything outside of ourselves.