Quotes about Weak
Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!
- Lisa Bevere
All the circumstances may say it's impossible, but God is asking you, "When did I become weak? Is there any limit to My power?" Get in agreement with God. He's about to shift some things in your favor.
- Joel Osteen
Jesus is gentle, but He is not weak. He loves the sinner but is absolutely intolerant of sin. He is not a negotiator. He is Lord. It is this bristling truth that invites intolerance toward Christians. Jesus did not say, Do your own thing... all roads lead to God. That would have made Jesus politically correct, but Jesus is not politically correct. He is Lord.
- Franklin Graham
to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.
- Edmund Burke
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
- Cicero
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.
- Michael Ignatieff
An angry woman cannot respect a weak man.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.
- Richard Baxter
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
- AW Tozer