You embrace your impotence, your powerlessness, your lack of control over the outcomes—you make peace with all that you can't do, with your limits, with all the people you can't help.
- Rob Bell
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
- Watchman Nee
Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.
- Joyce Meyer
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.