Quotes About Weakness

This is a particular idea in all our teachings which I like, either in philosophy, or in religion, or in work. If you read the Vedas, you will find this word always repeated — fearlessness — fear nothing. Fear is a sign of weakness. A man must go about his duties without taking notice of the sneers and the ridicule of the world.

The thicker, the sicker.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

True repentance says, "I cannot," and true faith adds, "But God, You can!

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don't know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in. Our weakness gives opportunity for his strength.

the healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts. In

Según el rabino Kushner, Dios se siente tan frustrado, incluso tan indignado con la injusticia de este planeta como cualquier otro, pero carece del poder necesario para cambiar las cosas. Millones de lectores han encontrado consuelo en la descripción que hace Kushner de un Dios que parece compasivo, aunque sea débil.

Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my family like a faithful black hound?

The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.