Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness.

Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God’s right...

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

You can’t retire to weakness — you’ve got to learn to control strength.

God is such a cruel godfor making you so wonderful,and for making me so weak.

To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.

I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand – only with your aid – profoundly corrected.

God’s relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that...

She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went smoothly and nothing occurred to justify her vague apprehensions, they did not altogether...

Your weaknesses aren’t destined to be permanent in your life. They are meant to be worked on until they become your strengths.

She took a life because someonehumiliated her, hurt her image of herself as the Valkyrie, thestainless warrior. Exposed her weakness, which was only love. So sheavenged herself. So easy to justify, I wrote to her....

Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard...

President Obama’s biggest weakness is weakness.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

She was too quiet, or she was too loud. She took things too seriously, or not seriously at all. She was too sensitive, or too cold-hearted. She hated with every fiber of her being, or...

The advantage to a person on being simple and humble all the time is that he is always adorable to innocent hearts, but not to those ignorant minds that treat his simplicity as a sign...

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you...

You`re only as weak as you let yourself become, and you`re only as strong as you allow yourself to be.

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room “in time” during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her...

May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.

I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to celebrate openly our human weakness in exchange for the experience of Christ as...

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.

For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen...

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Be grateful having that woman in your life. Accept her weaknesses and love her sincerely because that’s her beauty beyond the imperfections.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief’… is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me....

I’m not weak, I’ve just been strong for to long.

Satirize wickedness if you must–but pity weakness.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.

Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities...

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of...

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are.

The givers of true love hardly expect perfection

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.””The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

No god craves weaklings.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They’re my weakness.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

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 knowing as much...

And yet I wasn’t sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our...

In the midst of wanting to be powerful, I found a weakness.