Quotes about Infirmities
Always touched with sympathy for human infirmities, we bear the burden of nations in our hearts.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities.
— Billy Graham
If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.
— Ellen White
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took on our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
— Matthew 8:17
as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
— Luke 8:2
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
— Joseph Addison
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
— Ignatius of Loyola
Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.
— James Faust
There is a great deal of duty that husband and wife owe to one another, such as to instruct, admonish, pray, watch over one another, and be continual helpers to each other in order to their everlasting happiness; they must also patiently bear with the infirmities of each other.
— Richard Baxter
In history, a great volume is unravelled for our instruction, drawing materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
— Edmund Burke
But now the question arises, Why has God demanded of man that which he is incapable of performing? The first answer is, Because God refuses to lower His standard to the level of our sinful infirmities.
— AW Pink
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
— John Bunyan