Quotes About Vulnerability

No one has, because even in this middle age, he's sensitive, and if you say the wrong thing, he'll show the world just how sensitive he is by crying at your funeral.

A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not just an idle metaphor: the risk that a country in the bottom billion falls into civil war in any five-year period is nearly one in six, the same risk facing a player of Russian roulette.

Spiritually immature people wear themselves (and their friends) out with their foolish choices and words. If you cultivate close relationships with them, you will harvest truckloads of trouble, such as repeatedly being lied to, taken advantage of, and disrespected.

Don't fear your weaknesses—God supplies all the strength you need. Be afraid of those moments when you think you're independently strong.

Change is not found in defending our righteousness, but in admitting our weakness and crying for help.

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

God's grace frees you from having to deny your weaknesses.

As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.

Suffering causes us to scan our lives and face the fact that we control very little. So we mourn not only our suffering but also what it has forced us to admit about ourselves. Our loss of the illusion of control also adds to the fear that accompanies suffering.

Suffering doesn't make us weak; it simply exposes the weaknesses that have been there all along. It exposes the delusion of our sovereignty and independent capability.

When my hope is in my ability to rule the day, my spouse becomes a constant threat rather than an intimate companion.

Your Lord pries open your hands and takes away your crutches and distractions. He exposes your weaknesses so that you will cry out for what he knows you need, but what you have been willing to live without.

It is humbling to admit, but I have had to face the fact that the greatest danger to my ministry is me!

Suffering makes us susceptible to the one voice we should never hear and that will always do us harm.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

you and I need to be open and approachable in the midst of our discouragement. We'll never get the help we need if we first demand that people sign on to our view of things before we are willing to open up to them and listen to what they have to say to us.

Pastor, you don't have to be afraid of what is in your heart, and you don't have to fear being known, because there is nothing in you that could ever be exposed that hasn't already been covered by the precious blood of your Savior king, Jesus.

No one gives grace better than a parent who humbly admits that he desperately needs it himself.

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

And if there is one thing I've learned, it's if you don't put it out there, they won't put it in there.

Consider having as a friend, co-worker, or lover a person who in terms of emotional control and disguise was like a three-month-old infant, yet in all other respects—intelligence, skills, and so on—was fully able as any adult. It is a painful prospect.

to be loyal to Christ, one must be vulnerable to others.