Quotes About Desperation For God

#1. Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.

Mark Batterson

#2. If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. If the groom-to-be's views were actually considered, the wedding would be a far more relaxed affair, possibly involving go-carts.

Dave Barry

#4. Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.

Saul Bellow

#5. Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#6. I was also told that there is no greater prayer than that of a mother for her children. These are the purest prayers because of their intense desire and, at times, sense of desperation. A mother has the ability to give her heart to her children and to implore mightily before God for them.

Betty J. Eadie

#7. All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#8. My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#9. The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.

J. W. N. Sullivan

#10. Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn't come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#12. I was wrong, Gabby, and I'll apologize for it forever if you want me to. But the truth is I couldn't face you. If I came to you and you sent me away, if I knew for certain that you didn't want me anymore...God in heaven, Gabriella Waverly, I've never been so bloody afraid of a lass before.

Page Morgan

#13. Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

Charlotte Mason

#14. God should always be our first thought, not our last resort.

Kate McGahan

#15. It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

Trinny Woodall

#16. What I resorted to in desperation - prayer - was what I should have turned to first. I felt as if God had tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, mind if I give it a try?

John Green

#17. Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt.

Sara Sheridan

#18. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.

V. Raymond Edman

#19. Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

Bob Carlisle

#20. I like your silence, it the more shows off your wonder.

William Shakespeare

#21. The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

Billy Ray Cyrus

#22. The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

Anne Lamott

#23. You will never ever be backed into a corner of desperation as long as you trust and believe that "God's Got It.

Gale C. Adams

#24. Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Helen Fielding

#25. When our embarrassment level is exceeded by our desperation level, we are a good candidate for God's grace.

Peter Lord

#26. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

Robert McNamara

#27. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.

D.R. Silva

#28. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.

Dan B. Allender