To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

That’s the thing about being a victim; you start to think it’ll happen to you on a regular basis. It’s living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in...

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life–we went soft, we lost our edge.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.

If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it’s because you were made to feel this way as a child. It’s not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone...

Everything has a limit.

It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be.

Time spent worrying – about anything – provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.

And now, when Mother called to wake me up for the New Year, I first wanted to pray, but it turned into thanks, darling, for all that God had given us this year. For his...

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

That’s a man’s vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. (“Jane Brown’s Body”)

He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

But if the strength ain’t real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse...

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn’t understand.

Sanity is for the weak

Marx hated weakness in men, and considered the making of moral judgements as the last resort of the weak. To say ‘That is morally wrong’ is implicitly to say ‘ I am powerless to stop...

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of...

Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.

Vulnerability does not take away your strength

Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this is a picture about love. Filial love. The old man has been condemned...

…guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

Children are being killed, because some “adults” think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it’s a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed...

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; – and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith...

The search for God begins at the point of need.

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don’t always have to be strong to be there for each other–that it’s okay to be weak, so long...

I used to be terrified of my own weakness; if acknowledged it, I thought I would be overwhelmed by it. But I am stronger and braver than that. I am not so easily broken. I...

Only the weak finds comfort in making excuses and pointing finger.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it’s typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend...

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The ultimate weakenss of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or handicapped he is .

The border between the State of Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip had always reminded him of the line between Tijuana and greater San Diego. There, too, ragged men the color of earth waited with...

It is always better to be surrounded by enemies that make you strong, than to be crushed between friends that make you weak.

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

There’s nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.

Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where...

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.

The weaker you are the louder you bark.-Tenten

Don’t judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well.