Quotes about Weakness
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
— Dorothy Sayers
Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.
— Dorothy Sayers
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
— Aesop
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.
— Karl Barth
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
— Charles Spurgeon
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
— Charles Spurgeon
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
— Cormac McCarthy