Quotes about Vulnerability
God's strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.
- Billy Graham
Satan wants to lure us into his traps, and he knows exactly what kind of "bait" will appeal to us. He knows what we're like, and he will attack us exactly where we are the weakest.
- Billy Graham
Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.
- Billy Graham
It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us... subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.
- Billy Graham
The Bible warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.
- Billy Graham
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
- Billy Graham
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
- Michael Ignatieff
Transparent' was my coming-out party.
- Trace Lysette
We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.
- Andy Stanley
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
- Charles Spurgeon
Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
- John Eldredge
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
- Erica Jong