Quotes about Need

Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.

Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.

There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest, Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.

We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.

Man's greatest need is forgiveness while his greatest desire is power.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. To be known. You can stamp it out. Kill it. Box it up and hem it in. Numb it and close the door. Bury it and nail it shut. Encase it in stone. But eventually, the needs of the heart will tear the door off the hinges, unearth it, and crack the stone. No prison ever built could house it. Those of us who think we can are lying to ourselves. And those next to us. Hope never dies.

I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on my need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see but loves the beauty that shall be.

We must not fail to give our full attention to the spreading of the Good News and to prayer. But we must also care for those who are in need. That, too, is God's commandment to us. We must be careful not to neglect that task. "I have spent the afternoon in prayer, as have other apostles, and now we are ready to act. We would like you to select seven men—men who are full of the Spirit and wisdom—and we will turn this responsibility over to them.