Quotes about Vulnerability

Tennis needs some different personalities and a lot more emotions.

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

When tears fall that silently and that quickly, they're coming from your heart. It's like you have a soul-wound, and I just punctured it, and it bled tears.

Add a note This is what the love of God is like: it is free and therefore it is both all-powerful and completely vulnerable. All-powerful because it is always free to overcome, but vulnerable because it has no way of guaranteeing worldly success. The love of God belongs to a different order, not the order of power, manipulation and getting on top, which is the kind of power that pre-occupies us.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.