Quotes about Vulnerability

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.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.