Quotes about Vulnerability

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member.

In many ways, our sinful flesh acts as a mole. It is constantly responding to the allurements of the world and the enticements of the devil, and is constantly seeking to collaborate with them. And so we are very vulnerable spiritually. The

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

We are stronger in our broken places.

Oh, darling," she said. "You will be good to me, won't you?" What the hell, I thought. I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. She was crying. "You will, won't you?" She looked up at me. "Because we're going to have a strange life.