Man is a mystery.
It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time.
I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It has been a great comfort to me to realize anew that it is God and only God we need.
—Amy Carmichael
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
—Seneca
Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one’s irritation so long as one doesn’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.
—Seneca
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find way around the laws.
—Plato
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.
—Thomas Aquinas
What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me.
—J. Gresham Machen
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
—Plato
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
—René Descartes
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
—Charlie Chaplin
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
—Charlie Chaplin
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
—Aristotle
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.
—Charlie Chaplin
O for a love, for burning love
Like fervent flame of fire;
O for a love, for yearning love,
Love that will never tire;
Lord, in my need I appeal to Thee,
Grant me now my heart’s desire.
—Amy Carmichael
It is very hard to see how this can be for the best. But we are not asked to see, and why need we, when we know?
—Amy Carmichael
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches (Phil. 4:19). We lay those words before our Lord and we say to Him very earnestly, And now, O Lord, do as You have said.
—Amy Carmichael
As for God, His way is perfect—that is the substance of the words. And if His way be perfect we need no explanation.
—Amy Carmichael
Freely give means to give lavishly. What do I need today? Strength? Peace? Patience? Heavenly joy? Industry? Good temper? Power to help others? Inward contentment? Courage? Whatever it be, my God will lavish it upon me.
—Amy Carmichael
And in the one kind or the other, every follower of Christ will surely have need to take up his cross daily.
—John Wesley
If you truly fear God, you need fear none beside.
—John Wesley
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
—Mark Twain
O may my time, my fortune, my understanding, and all my talents be more diligently improved, but may the one thing needful be the grand concern with me, and let not my heart be overcharged with lusts of other things.
—William Wilberforce
There is no need to be overcome, whatever happens. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength (Judg. 5:21).
—Amy Carmichael
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
—Cicero
It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.
—AW Tozer
I think there can be no doubt that the need above all other needs in the Church of God at this moment is the power of the Holy Spirit. More education, better organization, finer equipment, more advanced methods—all are unavailing.
—AW Tozer
We shall need to recapture the spirit of worship. We shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness of God & the beauty of Jesus
—AW Tozer
If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on… then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.
—Immanuel Kant
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
—Aristotle
Most men need patience to die, but a saint that understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live.
—John Flavel