Quotes About Weakness

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

On his deathbed, Haidar had written to Tipu with advice to his son on the art of good government. He warned him that the Company would attempt to exploit any weakness in the succession: 'The greatest obstacle you have to conquer is the jealousy of the Europeans,' he wrote. 'The English are today all-powerful in India. It is necessary to weaken them by war.

Fragility comes in many forms

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

It is sincere faith, that is the strong faith; sincere love, that is the mighty love. Hypocrisy is to grace as the worm is to the oak—the rust to the iron—it weakens them, because it corrupts them.

The more our life has been corrupted with hypocrisy and unfaithfulness, the weaker our faith will be in a dying hour.

This is a ground of consolation to the weak Christian, who disputes against the truth of his grace, from the inward conflicts and fightings he hath with his lusts, and is ready to say like Gideon, in regard of outward enemies, 'If God be with me, why is all this befallen me?' Why do I find such strugglings in me, provoking me to sin, pulling me back from that which is good? Why dost [thou] ask? The answer is soon given; because thou art a wrestler, not a conqueror.

I have often heard it said that cowardice is the mother of cruelty, and I have found by experience that malicious and inhuman animosity and fierceness are usually accompanied by weakness. Wolves and filthy bears, and all the baser beasts, fall upon the dying.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

Lev Beniov:] "The imminence of death did not frighten me as much as it should have. I had been too afraid for too long; I was too exhausted, too hungry, too feel anything with proper intensity. But if my fear had diminished, it was not because my courage had increased. My body was so weak, so spent, that my legs trembled from the effort of standing upright. I could summon no great concern for anything, including the fate of Lev Beniov.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength.

The hero becomes strongest at his weakest point.

When one has the means of getting everything, one winds up giving in to personal demons.