Quotes about Need

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Love costs us much, but we still need it.Wisdom costs us much, but we still seek it.Faith costs us much, but we still practice it.Life costs us much, but we still desire it.

The mere mention of domestic service brings some people out in spots of outrage, but there is a crying need for relatively low-level employment. It's ridiculous that people at the top are killing themselves in demanding jobs and then coming home to mow their own lawns.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Eric Fromm: "The need for . . . an object of devotion is deeply rooted in the conditions of human existence.

"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."

But if all things equally fall short of this dignity, one thing there is that is not beneath the dignity of God, and that is, to do good to him that needed it.