Quotes About Vulnerability

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end.

Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.

Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .