Wits End Quotes:

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

topic: Prayer, Praying, Wits End, Our Prayers, Prayers Not Being Answered

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Reality, Men, Wits End, Cowardly

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

- Karl Barth

topic: Giving, Answers, Spirit, Wits End

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

- James Salter

topic: Wall, People, Needs, Wits End

There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.

- Mike Yaconelli

topic: Love You, People, Busy, Wits End

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2012). “Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.129, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Children, Father, Simple, Wits End, Artisans

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

- Maria Thayer

topic: People, Documentaries, Serious, Wits End

You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the border, and you've got people being killed now in Arizona. They are at their wits' end. Enforcing the law is the overall thing, and if there are some civil rights violations, so be it. That's how desperate the situation is. They want the law anyway.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Rights, Law, Drug Cartels, Hezbollah, Wits End

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

- George Sand

topic: Time, Nuts, Driven, Wits End