Quotes about Need
The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.
- Francis Chan
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain
- Paul Washer
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
- AB Simpson
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
- Timothy Keller
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
- Timothy Keller
If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.
- Timothy Keller
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
- David Platt
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
- AW Tozer
The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.
- Alistair Begg