Quotes about Vulnerability

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.

Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.