Own Weakness Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility… — John of Shanghai and San Francisco
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. — Thomas Keating
If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love, if it were not for this opportunity… — Theodore Edgar McCarrick
The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges… — Avery Dulles
What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness. — Blaise Pascal
God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well… — Raphael Kalinowski
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… — Walter Lippmann
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a… — William Shirley
We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are… — Swami Vivekananda
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find… — Pat Summitt
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means… — Wojciech Kurtyka
We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability… — Henri Nouwen
We don't know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don't know what to do… — Jean Vanier
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do… — George B. McClellan
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.… — John Henry Newman
Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a… — Roger Bannister
The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. — Epictetus
No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves… — Pope Francis
Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed… — Maria Mitchell
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where… — Jonathan Swift

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