Quotes related to Psalm 34:17-18
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
- Les Brown
Though my enemies and all the world oppress me, persecute me, and drive me out, I still have a Lord who is, and wants to be, my Lord because God has promised this to me.
- Martin Luther
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens
There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
- Oswald Chambers
There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them.
- Oswald Chambers
My self-confidence, love of wisdom, and desire to change the world were rooted in that brief period, when I climbed out of despair to rebirth.
- Pam Grout
Change is not found in defending our righteousness, but in admitting our weakness and crying for help.
- Paul David Tripp
Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic
- Paul David Tripp
Your Lord pries open your hands and takes away your crutches and distractions. He exposes your weaknesses so that you will cry out for what he knows you need, but what you have been willing to live without.
- Paul David Tripp
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
- 1 Samuel 1:16
But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,
- 1 Samuel 19:9
So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.
- 1 Samuel 30:4