Quotes about Needy
far too much Christian evangelism and apologetics is based on the assumption that almost everyone is open, interested and needy—when most people most of the time are quite simply not.
- Os Guinness
False religion does not need a Savior. False religion is rooted in human righteousness. Rather than being broken, needy, poor in spirit, crying out for divine rescue, it comforts itself in evidences of its own righteousness.
- Paul David Tripp
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- 1 Samuel 2:8
He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
- Job 5:15
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
- Job 24:4
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
- Job 24:14
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
- Job 30:25
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
- Job 31:19
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
- Psalm 9:18
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalm 10:2
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Psalm 12:5
All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
- Psalm 35:10