Quotes about Vulnerability

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Whether we choose it or not, almost all expressions of church in the West are implicitly vulnerable to nondiscipleship, professionalized ministry, spiritual passivity, and consumerism. The problem is rooted in the profoundly nonmissional assumptions of the system itself.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member.