Helplessness Quotes

131 quotes by 115 authors

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not… — Michael Ian Black
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. — Hannah More
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer. — Ole Hallesby
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your… — Ole Hallesby
Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. — Ole Hallesby
You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that… — Susan Jeffers
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels… — Blaise Pascal
Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant.… — Susan Jeffers
And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained… — Dianne Feinstein
If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes.… — T. K. Seung
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the… — Ole Hallesby
By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible. — Ole Hallesby
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers -… — Stephen Bayley
To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have… — Nhat Hanh
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which… — John Updike
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen
Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children… — Caryll Houselander
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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