Quotes about Vulnerability

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

One cannot have an enriched marriage when it is funded by an emotionally and spiritually bankrupt man.

Things that are covered don't heal well.

Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.

We claim we are not emotional, yet we are so sensitive that a vicious word from a cruel woman can leave the most manly of us impotent! A cutting statement can undermine the strength, vigor, and vitality of even the strongest of men. Most women greatly underestimate the power of their words to magnify or crush their husbands' strength.

No matter how strong we are, there is always something that can cause the heart to flutter and the pulse to weaken.

He alone whom we must trust to see the very worst in us, yet still think the very best of us.

It can be frightening to own your authentic self.

Samson entertained Delilah, and she infiltrated his heart and took his secrets. Avoid entertaining thoughts that will destroy your peace.

Strength in the wrong place is weakness. That's true of anyone's gift. If you're not using your greatest asset in the right way, it's a weakness. Your greatest strength might be your undoing

Even the most voluptuous of fast-paced and lace-clad women cannot console the anguish of masculine tears blocked and cries muffled. Broken men try to mask their hurts behind empty emblems of success, but hidden behind those frail facades are screaming hearts bound in a forced silence.