Quotes About Vulnerability

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.

I am a girl without game. I'm not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

The things you're most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others

It's OK to let your children see you cry.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Praise God we don't have to hide scars

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

I see God in the face of children. If there were no children on this Earth, if somebody announced that all kids are dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately. I'm done.

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?

Homeless people bear God's image too.

Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"