Quotes about Helplessness

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

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.

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

“Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.”

Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.

Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don't know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in. Our weakness gives opportunity for his strength.