Quotes About Weakness

for this is a lesson to carry with you all your life long. God demands our allegiance above all things. We are to remain steadfast with him, even when things are the hardest, even when we are weakest, even when we are angry, even when we are afraid. These are all forces from beyond the boundaries of Eden. They exist, yes, and they test us. But we can carry the holy garden with us wherever we go, so long as our hearts remain true to God.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

C'est cela l'amour, non? Avouer là où l'on hésite, là où on faiblit.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.

There's always somebody who wants to be the Big Man, and take everything for themselves, and tell everybody how to think and what to do. When, actually, it's he who is weak. But if the Big Men see that you see that they are weak they have no choice but to destroy you. That is the real tragedy.

Anxiety is my kryptonite.

Úgy látszik, az emberi természetben gyökerezik, hogy mindent elszenvedtetünk azzal, aki kész mindent elszenvedni igazi alázatosságból, gyengeségb?l vagy közönyb?l. Avagy nem szeretjük-e mindnyájan kipróbálni er?nket valakinek vagy valaminek a kárára?

For the little season that a woman's beauty is in flower it serves her admirably well in the dissimulation to which her natural weakness and our social laws condemn her.

Perhaps it is human nature to spare no torment when the victim accepts any suffering out of genuine humility, weakness or indifference.

I used to be terrified of my own weakness; if acknowledged it, I thought I would be overwhelmed by it. But I am stronger and braver than that. I am not so easily broken. I am strong enough to realize that it is alright to be fragile, to be less than perfect. Staying connected to that vulnerability, ironically, gives me strength.

Devotion," said Bishop Hall, "is the life of religion, the very soul of piety, the highest employment of grace." It is much to be feared that "we are weak in the pulpit because we are weak in the closet.

Lonesomeness, on the other hand, did not depend on circumstance. It was bolted in the heart and seized on a man's weakness, a vise that squeezed all possibility out of time, that crushed hope and rendered meaningless anything tomorrow could offer.

tinha descoberto a profunda diferença entre justiça e moralidade. A justiça era o instrumento dos fortes, para ser usada como os fortes desejavam; a moralidade, como os deuses, era a ilusão dos fracos.

Is that what lives on longest, the sadness? The proof of our being weak, not the proof of our being strong?

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Sometimes there is only a sixty-second divide between youth and maturity, childhood and adulthood, strength and weakness, life and death. That life is vulnerable is the key to its longevity.

Nought remains But vindictiveness here amid the strong, And there amid the weak an impotent rage.

As situações são simbólicas; é uma fraqueza dos homens de hoje tratá-las analiticamente e dissolver com isso sua magia

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

By emphasizing God's mercy, more infinite than a parent's for a child, she found salvation in her own weakness. "Sanctity," Thérèse explains to her sister, is "a disposition of heart which is confident to the point of audacity in the goodness of our Father.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

Siempre tendrás dudas, pero sólo las descubrirás en los momentos que tu debilidad aproveche para señalarlas.

I'd trusted in my own strength about so many things. I realized God delights in using the weak and fearful.