Quotes about Vulnerability

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

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.