“ I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence…I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour… ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. ”
- Sir Philip Sidney- Copy
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“ The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. ”
- Hannah Moore- Copy
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“ Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. ”
- John Whitehead- Copy
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“ In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. ”
- Alija Izetbegović- Copy
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“ Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. ”
- Archibald Alexander- Copy
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“ Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
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“ Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision. ”
- Margaret Fairless Barber- Copy
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“ A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. ”
- John Carey- Copy
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“ The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
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“ By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! ”
- Belva Plain- Copy
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“ Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. ”
- Anne Besant- Copy
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