Quotes about Vulnerability

Your heart needs to be broken—and broken open—at least once to discover what your heart means and to have a heart for others.

By the feminine principle I mean everything vulnerable, interior, powerless, subtle, personal, intimate, and relational. By the masculine principle I mean everything clear, rational, linear, ordered, in control, bounded, provable, and hard. Both the feminine and masculine are good, but they must balance each other.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

You're only as sick as your secrets.

As so many people in the Bible did, tell God exactly how you feel.

It's encouraging to know that all of God's closest friends — Moses, David, Abraham, Job, and others — had bouts with doubt. But instead of masking their misgivings with pious clichés, they candidly voiced them openly and publicly. Expressing doubt is sometimes the first step toward the next level of intimacy with God.

God has never been impressed with strength or self-sufficiency. In fact, he is drawn to people who are weak and admit it.

Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.

The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.