Quotes about Overwhelmed

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

We are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

For I am ashamed of and annoyed by my exceedingly disgraceful lack of faith amid such a wealth of promises by which we have been overwhelmed and made drunk, when I consider and see that the saintly fathers had such great faith in promises not yet fulfilled.

THIS BRINGS US NICELY to the third speaker in our sound system. Like the second one, this third one has often been turned up far too loud. This has meant both that the music it is quite properly trying to play has itself been distorted and that the music coming from the other speakers (apart from the equally distorted second one) has been overwhelmed. In much modern biblical scholarship, in fact, this one has often drowned out all the others.

Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted!

When you feel unprepared, alone, overburdened, and besieged, what but God is able to give you reason to hope again, to believe again, and to live again?

So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his army with the sword.

Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?

When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he burned with great anger.

For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.