Quotes about Lacking

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.

Me, it's the heart: that's the part lacking. I used to want one: a dainty cushion of red silk dangling from a blood ribbon, fit for sticking pins in. But I've changed my mind. Hearts hurt. — Margaret Atwood, from "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage ," Dearly: New Poems (Ecco, 2020)

The only thing lacking in any situation is our own awareness of love.

Those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.