Quotes about Frailty
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
- MFK Fisher
I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.
- Mother Angelica
Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.
- Marcus Aurelius
Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.
- AW Pink
Poor, frail human nature! God can do little for men who lose their sense of dependence upon Him.
- Ellen White
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
- TobyMac
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.
- Henry B. Eyring
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
- John Tillotson