871 Quotes About Weakness

To the strong there is no such thing as free will; for free will implies an alternative, and the strong man has no alternative. His ruling instinct leaves him no alternative, allows him no hesitation or vacillation. Strength of will is the absence of free will. If to the weak man strong will appears to have an alternative, it is a total misapprehension on his part.

Seeking refuge in ‘faith’ adds to ‘strength’, and not a ‘weekness’!!

Because the point, son, isn't us. The point is God. It's what He can do through us in our weakness. When everyone can look at us and see our weaknesses open and laid bare, yet they see strength shining through those weaknesses, they know that strength is God and He's the one who's glorified.

Make your weaknesses your strengths, that’s how you grow.

The best way to step beyond weakness is to embrace it.

You use weakness as a weapon. You're so ashamed of your own mistakes in life, so afraid of your own fragility, that you accuse everyone else around you of being soft just for the crime of basic human frailty.

There is weakness in resistance, strength in letting go.

All men are weak,' said Phin.'That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.'My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.

Through all the hours of praying, I’d come to realize perhaps weaker men had an easier time praying than strong ones. In all the years I’d relied upon my own strength, I hadn’t needed God’s. Now I was coming to understand the truth of my father’s claim that God’s grace and presence shine the strongest in our humblest moments.