Quotes about Vulnerability

We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.

To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love.

Don't be afraid to be afraid.

When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.

But, like all human beings, she still had unfulfilled longings. She could still be as lonely and frightened as a child, and with as little reason.

All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build them and men destroy them. At the same time there is a City of God which men did not build and cannot destroy and which is everlasting.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

All little lambs need a shepherd.

If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.