Quotes about Vulnerability
Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.
- Henri Nouwen
Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.
- Hal Elrod
When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
- Bob Goff
There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.
- Mother Teresa
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
- Leo Buscaglia
As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?
- Denzel Washington
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.
- Marianne Williamson
Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
The weaker I am, the harder I must lean on God's grace; the harder I lean on him, the stronger I discover him to be, and the bolder my testimony to his grace.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
- Joni Eareckson Tada