Helplessness Quotes
Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.
At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness
A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.
The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.
Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.
But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.
Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.
Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.
Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all.....not by force, but by grace.
I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.
I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.
There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again
How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.” -Mehul.M
Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
So then I bid him farewell and walked down the side of the pool leading to the outside entrance where I waited for soph to come down so we could walk home together
We made mistakes learnt from them not to repeat it again. But some mistakes are made repeatedly but we feel helpless after doing it...
Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.
DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.
Waiting accentuates our helplessness, ant that is what God seems committed to revealing. Only when we know ourselves to be helpless do we fully experience his grace and glory. We have to wait for it.
The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.
He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.
The anger welled inside me, with no where to go. I could feel it eating away at me. I knew if i didn't find a way to release it, it would destroy me.
Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.
