Quotes About Weakness

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

If I was going to give Matt (Kenseth) a piece of advice, I'd say use the s- out of him. Every time you get, run him hard, because that's his weakness.

Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender hearted.

Strong people don't like witnesses to their weakness.

Our suffering does not make us weak; only our avoidance of suffering makes us weak. And that avoidance—the avoidance of legitimate suffering—is unfortunately bolstered by the cultural attitudes of a society obsessed with cheap and easy happiness.

about the practice of love, as a strength and not a weakness, as a daily answer to the problems that confront us. How is love a practical solution?

Siempre que se considere que la fuerza bruta es el mayor poder y el amor se interprete esencialmente como debilidad, nos estaremos burlando de Dios y estaremos poniendo en riesgo nuestro futuro.

The truth now. He was disappointed in human beings. He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame. The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters

el primer día que pudo ponerse de pie a los pocos pasos se desplomó al suelo, exhausto, en un estado de debilidad que no recordaba haber sentido antes.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. —John F. Kennedy

Discipling in the gospel means that sometimes you lead the way in confessing weakness or sin. By doing so, you demonstrate what it looks like not to find your justification in yourself, but in Christ. And so you live transparently and honestly.

To flaunt your strength is to make it your weakness.

He who cannot revenge himself is weak. He who will not is comtemptible.

I always thought it was disgusting and ugly, how the weak live their lives depending on each other shamefully licking each other's wounds. A way of life that no one could truly want. I was certain that no greatness could ever come from that. That's what I thought until I met you.

He can see now that this is a delusion from which you suffer when the path chosen for you is a profitable one. When the path veers into darker, more difficult terrain you finally understand that what you thought was weakness in others is not weakness at all; it is simply the structure of the world.

She was exquisite, and he feared that he was blinded to everything else, that he was drawn to her by weakness, that his passion for her was incomplete. Know ing all too well the deeply religious love of the Italian poets for women they had merely seen on the street, he feared that his infatuation for Lia could never be compared to the elemental union that can occur between men and women when God is present and light surrounds them.

Unfortunately, magnanimity is often seen as weakness by those on the receiving end. It's easy to be sensitive, tolerant, and multicultural--it's the default mode of the age---yet, when you persist in being sensitive to the insensitive, tolerant of the intolerant, and impeccably multicultural about the avowedly unicultural, don't be surprised if they take it for weakness.

A dependence on immigration from very limited and particular sources is not a strength but a weakness.

I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness