Quotes about Vulnerability

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?

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.