Quotes about Vulnerability
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
People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.
- Rick Warren
God knows the mess we're in when He calls us. His light shines greater through "cracked pots" than it does through those who have it all together.
- Joyce Meyer
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
- CS Lewis
What you fear reveals where you trust God the least.
- Craig Groeschel
God looks after children, animals and idiots.
- Lou Holtz
I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.
- George W. Bush
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
- John Stott
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
- Dante Alighieri
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
- Dennis Prager