Quotes About Human frailty

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Najbednija i najtragi?nija od svih ?ovekovih slabosti nesumnjivo je njegova potpuna nesposobnost predvi?anja, koja je u oštroj protivnosti sa tolikim njegovim darovima, veštinama i znanjima.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every law.

Only great men have great faults.

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward, but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

Unhappily we are so weak that we find it easier to believe and speak evil of others, rather than good.

Everybody's mean sometimes. That's because our flesh is weak and we're loaded with sin.

God's justice transcends human frailty, and our duty is to await his answers. Rather than assume the right to determine the laws of God's created order (Crenshaw calls this "Titanism"), we must humbly submit to God's greater wisdom.

Everybody here is infirm. Everybody here is infirm.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.

Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

Everybody does something wrong at one time or another.