Quotes About Weakness

Nor could she help him with the guilt burden of the jilting of the girl to whom he had promised himself and whose life might be irretrievably wrecked by his decision. And this, too, Jerry was able to face... for the war had taught him that life is pitiless and that there is forgiveness for many things, but not for weakness.

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

When we arrive at the end of our own strength it is not defeat, but the start of tapping into God's boundless resources. It is when we are weak that we are strong in God.

Yun often tells me, "We are absolutely nothing. We have nothing to be proud about. We have no abilities and nothing to offer God. The fact that he chooses to use us is only due to his grace. It has nothing to do with us. If God should choose to raise up others for his purpose and never use us again we would have nothing to complain about.

It has been said, "It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God." Those who know Brother Yun can vouch that he is a humble servant of God who does not want any part of his life to bring glory to himself or man.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

It has been said, "It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.

my strength is made perfect in weakness

There's another element in the euro crisis, another weakness of a shared currency, that took many people, myself included, by surprise. It turns out that countries that lack their own currency are highly vulnerable to self-fulfilling panic, in which the efforts of investors to avoid losses from default end up triggering the very default they fear.

Blinky couldn't bench press a breadstick

Behold divinity divine enough to abandon divinity. Behold majesty secure enough to proceed un-majestically. Behold strength strong enough to become weakness, goodness good enough to be unmindful of its reputation. Behold love plenteous enough to give and take not again.

Malgus knew it was folly. Empires and the men who ruled empires could not stay sharp when surrounded by comfort, by peace.

The weak are found out and killed by the strong.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Maybe he considers the kiss a moment of weakness or bad judgment, or maybe he's still attracted to me but trying to shut off the feelings—as practiced as I am at ignoring difficult emotions and hoping they'll go away.

The Bronze Horseman would pursue her into her grave. She felt it. Into her eternity, clambering behind her in the night and in the day, in every hour of sorrow, in every minute of weakness, in darkness, in light, through all of America he would be rattling at her heels, the way he had been relentlessly rattling at her through the past eleven hundred days, through the past eleven hundred nights, right into her maddening dust. How much longer for Tatiana's life?

How's Jen ever going to handle anything if she cannot handle something even this minor? Jen had always suspected there would come a time when she would be called upon to deal and wouldn't be able to. No, I told her, don't be absurd. Don't be silly. Everything that happens only makes you stronger. Remember what Tolstoy said? "All that doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But yet, here she is, weaker than ever, and I cannot find the right words.

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.

He had already incapacitated me, harried me, cut away most of my illusions and some of my ignorance; he had already so weakened me that I was falling back on myths, words, mysteries to replace what I had lost.

It was her nature...her weakness, that for her loving another human being must always have this intensity...this absoluteness.

When you start with wussie mortals, you get wussie demons. Sure, they steal souls and rend flesh occasionally, but they choke up in a pinch.

You've lost sight of the fact that it is our weeniness that makes us human!