Quotes about Frailty
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.
- Anonymous
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
- Anonymous
In this respect the frailty of the human mind is surely proved: even when it seems to follow the way, it limps and staggers. Yet the fact remains that some seed of political order has been implanted in all men. And this is ample proof that in the arrangement of this life no man is without the light of reason.
- John Calvin
The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way.
- John Calvin
Is it not rather meant that it was placed far above us, in order to convince us of our utter feebleness?
- John Calvin
what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!
- Richard Baxter
Se muere con demasiada facilidad. Morir deberÃ
- Elias Canetti
The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.
- James Carroll
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
- Charles Spurgeon
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
- John Milton
I am only human, although I regret it.
- Mark Twain