The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

The less you feed the ego, the stronger you will be.

Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not...

Humility and respect should not be taken as a glyph of weakness

She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the...

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper; outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a...

Am I as admirable as that ant?

As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to find his parents during the night, but because he fears his...

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what...

Don’t let them see you weak.

Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Popcorn! Our fatal weakness!

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from...

Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep cry for help.Superman’s two...

Humans are most imaginative when they need a means of self-destruction. If the world existed in an overflowing amount of happiness; a utopian state, then the suicide rate would dwarf any extinction level threat. Humans...

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which...

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?

You may look tough, but being weak-hearted still makes you weak.

How can we who are so weak in ourselves, so inferior in power to the enemies confronting us, bear up under our trials which are so numerous, so protracted, so crushing? We could not, and...

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...