Quotes on Empty Hands

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.