Quotes about Frailty

I say the Gospel is frail because we are frail.

It is the grace of Christ, and not the virtue of man, which can and does bring it about that through fervor of spirit frail flesh learns to love and to gain what it naturally hates and shuns.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.

We cannot have justification urged upon us too often or too much. Even if we learn it and understand it well, none of us grasps it perfectly or believes it with his whole heart. Our flesh is so frail and is often disobedient to the Spirit.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way.

How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil! Today you confess your sins and tomorrow you again commit the sins which you confessed. One moment you resolve to be careful, and yet after an hour you act as though you had made no resolution.

The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.

The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.