Quotes about Vulnerability

Jesus never encouraged His friends to cover over the pain in their lives, but to bring it into the light, where healing is found. Sometimes we don't do that because we fear being rejected by others. Yes, rejection may well happen, but bringing the pain to the light is still the best way to live. It will take much courage, but it will bring freedom.

We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.

Without shelter, we stand in daylight.

my heart felt like a soft, damaged place in my chest, like a bruise on a peach.

All those hopes placed in such a precarious vessel.

Maybe it's true what they say, that as long as you're nursing your own pain, whatever it is, you'll turn your back on others in the same boat. You'll want to believe the fix they're in is their own damn fault.

I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them—when they feel understood by you—that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open. But most people are too vulnerable emotionally to listen deeply—to suspend their agenda long enough to focus on understanding before they communicate their own ideas.