144 Quotes About Helplessness

Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you are not okay. But Jesus can fix us both.

Do you remember how scared we were? How lost and cold and alone? I do. I don't want anyone feeling that helpless.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

People will help, they just want to check 'How good are you without them?'. Just Show Them.

I was going to die. I was going to die, right now, right here, before I even had a chance to thoroughly apologize to anyone for what I’d done...before I had a chance to forgive myself. I wasn’t even going to leave with a bang, one final act of dignity or at least the thought that I still belonged somewhere; I would die without even the simple acceptance that I’d done everything I could. Tears welled in my eyes, but I didn’t let them fall. I didn’t want to die crying.

There is something of tragedy and a ‘comedy of eternal errors’ when we attempt to write great scripts of rescue when we are the ones in need of rescue.

As I write this I feel that draining, hollowing helplessness that genuine love for another person produces in you. It's at these moments that we know we are going to die. Only with Freya, Stella and Gail. Only three. Better than none.

Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.