Quotes About Weakness

By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance--all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us--lavishly.

As long as our minds rehearse the strength of our stronghold more than the strength of our God, we will be impotent. As we pray the Word of God acknowledging His limitless strength and transcendent dominion, Truth will begin to eclipse the lies. We will realize that in our weakness He is strong and that as we bend the knee to His lordship God is more than able to deliver us.

For we also are weak in Him, yet toward you we will live with Him by God's power. 2 Corinthians 13:4

Lord God, Your Holy Spirit helps me in my weakness. I do not know what I ought to pray for, but the

God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. 1 Corinthians 1:25

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.

Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.

Special interest groups are like terrorists: they test for weakness and exploit fear.

The willingness to change one's mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

My father says my mind is weak, and my tongue, weaker, she'd told me then. It seemed now her tongue was not weak, but the fiercest part of her.

If your opponent is of choleric temper,  seek to irritate him.  Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.

Some people think insufficiency means weakness and surplus means strength, but this impression is wrong.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.     IV.