Quotes about Powerlessness

When we take matters into our own hands, we take God out of the equation.

He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

whenever you ask creation to do what only the Creator can do, you are on your way to addiction.

You didn't do it, and the sooner you understand that, the better it will be for you and your marriage. You couldn't have done it. You're simply not that powerful and not that wise. You and I like to think that it was all our initiative, but it wasn't. When you face the fact that your marital story is all about the wisdom and will of Another, your understanding of marriage completely changes forever.

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.