Quotes About Weakness

Over and again, you allow the hard logic of the market to usurp human choice and so you create a society with the morality of an anthill, where all human life is reduced to labour, all freedom flattened by the demand for efficient production, all weakness punished, all violence justified, where schools and hospitals are cut while crime and alienation flourish and millions are thrown into the deep pit of unemployment.

Pray About It: How often we pray for God to remove our problems when God has designed these problems to be vehicles for His strength. Whereas in the past we've prayed for days equal to our strength, today we must pray for power equal to our days. Remember today His strength will be made perfect in your weakness. Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. OSWALD CHAMBERS

With creation and function came peace. With mental fortitude came strength and the banishment of weakness.

This boy is a man. Twice the man you are. He is kind where you're cruel, he is strong where you're weak, and he knows full well how to make a girl want to be got, and to get her. And when he does, he can last long, longer, I wager, than you! He is Peretur Paladn Hir, and he is destined for greatness!

Don't worry about it, Borage. I've always been inclined to think that the Apostle Paul was similarly afflicted. He speaks often of a bodily weakness, and men have been at pains to name it, attibuting to him everything from lameness to lung sickness. But I think the clue lies in his experience on the road to Damascus. Tell me, do you see a great light? Dr. Trudgett

they would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ultimate attainment of the barbarian, and unfortunately in these days of civilization's withering it has won a great many adherents. In pursuance of this ideal man becomes a hybrid thing, a brute-spirit, whose cruel mentality exerts a horrible spell upon weaklings.

Ferice de limba noastr? c?ci e lipsit? de suple?e - ce? puternic o supune, cel slab e supus de ea - în primul caz manifestarea for?ei e mai v?dit?, mai frumoas?; în al doilea, neputun?a mai izbitoare - ?i astfel t?râmul frumuse?ii r?mâne mai pur, mai nobil, mai neamestecat.

S? fie oare corpul ?i sufletul în vreun fel anume separate - ?i nu este semn de sl?biciune faptul c? afec?iunea unuia este totodat? ?i afec?iunea celuilalt - f?r? niciun amestec al voin?ei?

büyük kalpler nedense çok zay?f oluyor…

Tutunamayan(disconnectus erectus): Beceriksiz ve korkak bir hayvand?r. ?nsan boyunda olanlar? bile vard?r. ?lk bak??ta, d?? görünü?üyle, insana benzer. Yaln?z pençeleri ve özellikle t?rnaklar? çok zay?ft?r. Dik arazide yoku? yukar? hiç tutunamaz. Yoku? a?a?? kayarak iner…

So I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It's one I've always liked. A widow is so persistent in her demands for justice that she overcomes the resistance of a judge who fears neither God nor man. She wears him down. Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

Sharing is a weakness, a shameful secret. A person who knows what I am can hurt me, betray me, disable me with little effort.

I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It's one I've always liked. A widow is so persistent in her demands for justice that she overcomes the resistance of a judge who fears neither God nor man. She wears him down. Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

Even thus imprisoned in an instant, the spirit of man might yet plumb the whole extent of space, and also the whole past and the whole future; and so from behind his prison bars, he might render the universe that intelligent worship which, they felt, it demanded of him. Better so, they said, than that he should fret himself with puny efforts to escape. He is dignified by his very weakness, and the cosmos by its very indifference.

It can be because in each man's life there are only a few women who can turn him inside out, who can cripple him with a smile. These are weaknesses, but they're also a sign of humanity. Without these flaws, a man doesn't really live.

There is a certain well-known syndrome named after Stendhal in which one arrives in a place known from literature or art and experiences it so intensely that one grows weak or faints.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

After half a millennium of dominance, the West is being eclipsed in the global era, the United States as the lead society in the West stands on the verge of relative if not absolute decline, and much of the Christian Church in both Europe and North America is in a sorry state of weakness, confusion, unfaithfulness and cultural captivity.

The weak fear happiness itself.

I smiled in my weakness.

Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Even now, I barely have the strength to reread what I've written.