Quotes about Infirmity
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
— Seneca
Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
— John Bunyan
Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
— St Bonaventure
He did so because that particular infirmity uniquely fits you for the life He has planned for you.
— Jerry Bridges
The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
— Anonymous
Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.
— John Knox
Our weakness should not terrify us: it is the source of our strength. Libenter gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis ut inhabitet in me virtus Christi. Power is made perfect in infirmity, and our very helplessness is all the more potent a claim on that Divine Mercy Who calls to Himself the poor, the little ones, the heavily burdened.
— Thomas Merton
Power is made perfect in infirmity, and our very helplessness is all the more potent a claim on that Divine Mercy Who calls to Himself the poor, the little ones, the heavily burdened.
— Thomas Merton
Charles Spurgeon's words: "You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.
— Beth Moore
Satan can do nothing about God's unshakable kingdom directly, but only indirectly through human infirmity and rebellion. His way of doing that is to persuade, and to tempt, and to deceive humanity.
— Dallas Willard
He was to be the son of her old age; the limb of her infirmity; the oak tree on which she leant her degradation.
— Virginia Woolf
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen