Quotes about Need

There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.

Ah, my reader, the reason why people do not receive and duly prize the truth of election, is because they do not feel their due need of it.

Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of need.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

We don't fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not converted; we fail only if we don't faithfully tell the gospel at all. Evangelism itself isn't converting people; it's telling them that they need to be converted and telling them how they can be.

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

Of all of God's children, I will have needed him the most.

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God.

Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.