Quotes About Vulnerability

Self-rejection paves the landing strip for the rejection of others to arrive and pull on up to the gates of our hearts.

Instead of looking at life with the hope of receiving love, I started expecting rejection.

Honesty isn't trying to hurt me. It's trying to heal me.

Or, "Most of the time when you open your mouth, make known the gospel. But if you're feeling really, really hurt, rally other people around your cause and make this other person look as bad as you can.

When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless.

those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.

Rejection always leaves the deepest, darkest marks.

when someone of great significance in our lives makes us feel like our belonging is more of a question mark than a security blanket, we become very sensitive to even the slightest hints of rejection.

Together is a great way to press through something you're afraid could make you feel a bit undone.

Don't allow this thief to weaken, expose, or make you vulnerable. Don't compromise. Refuse to accept less than the peace and abundant life God has promised you.

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

Constant reminders that love is doubly edged with the most beautiful potential and the most dangerous pain.

I didn't want to open up myself to yet another possible complicated disappointment. I reasoned, Walk away early so you don't have to suffer the pain of them falling away later. Some call that protecting yourself. But I knew in my case it was called letting past hurts hurt me all over again.

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe.

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

I have allowed myself to believe that to be stripped of all the props and pretensions and accolades and approvals is to be stripped of the best parts of me. When in reality what's best about me comes to the forefront when I'm closest to the way God created me, naked and unashamed. To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life.

Even if life handed me love, I suspiciously waited for it to be snatched away.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.

Reese held Allacazam out to him, wondering if Hirianthial would take him directly from her hands and risk touching her, or if she'd have to set the Flitzbe on the floor and let him roll to the man's boots.