quotations about weakness
Our weakness is the precondition for God's grace.
N. GRAHAM STANDISH
Paradoxes for Living: Cultivating Faith in Confusing Times
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
OVID
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength. And when the Strong start smashing each other's strength ... the Weak may turn out to be, instead, the Wise.
G. C. EDMONDSON
Blessed Are the Meek
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden