Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I...

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Weakness is not a characteristic you want to share with the world

Love makes you weak.

God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful andpowerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is therevelation of the deepest truth about the character of God, then...

Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the...

Dare not surrender to weakness you divine creation!

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

O, lack and doubt and fear can only comeBecause of plenty, confidence, and love!They are the shadow-forms about their feet,Because they are not perfect crystal-clearTo the all-searching sun in which they live.Dread of its loss...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference...

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

It’s my experience that a weakness understood is no weakness. If you know you have it, even if you can’t control it, you can make allowances for it. It is those who ignore or don’t...

You don’t have to cry on everything that hurts you – sometimes, it is better to show how strong you are than to make them prove that they can make you die!

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with...

Quoting Samuel Johnson: “Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women...

Sometimes stories get on my nerves–especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.Life isn’t like that.Not every hero...

Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.

That’s why I hate the concept of falling in love. It makes you weak. It takes away your strength. Your power. Your rational sense. EVERYTHING.

Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the...

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I’m not...

Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.

There are weakness and strengths of every man. Focus and build on your strengths

In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you...

Achieving success is your ability to eliminate the weakness and biases that are inherent within yourself

All he’d learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any...

What do you want me to say?” he asked, his voice sharp and moody. “That I had a moment of weakness when I saw it?That for an instant I felt the pang of being homesick?...

No matter what challenges or obstacles we experience, we must make a CHOICE to become better or bitter because of it. Will and pray your way through it. In my opinion, the difference between those...

I haven’t any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring...

You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a...

I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.–“Wanda

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity – but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way...

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

Trust is the strength of respect and the lust its weakness.

Our weakness is an invitation to discover God’s strength.

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

…To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’ to seek from him who is our life, as the natural, simple cure...

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person...

A man’s weakness is his family and a woman’s is her child

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do–to love and be loved