Quotes about Vulnerability
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
— George Bernard Shaw
We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.
— Will Smith
It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.
— David Crowder
You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
— Mike Bickle
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
— Brennan Manning
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
— Vance Havner
God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.
— Joyce Meyer
At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.
— Pope Francis
The things you're most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others
— Rick Warren
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
— Henri Nouwen
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."
— Tullian Tchividjian