Quotes about Vulnerability

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

Homeless people bear God's image too.

Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.

The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity.

Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.

So I'm trying, instead of shaming or pretending, to come to terms with my emotions, and bring them before God honestly. I have come to realize that I'm never going to stop having emotions, and probably strong emotions, because that is the way I'm wired.

Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, "If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.

Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.

The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts.