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  • I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

  • I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.

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  • When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.

    Husband   Wife   Healthy  
  • We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us

  • Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

  • It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

  • For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

    Lonely   Men   Tree  
    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

    Fear   Lying   Believe  
    'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4
  • Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

    Men   Dust   Sublime  
    Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.89, Penguin UK
  • I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

    Wisdom   Islamic   Light  
  • Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

    "Zola Jesus Is A Romantic". Interview with Leila Brillson, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.
  • God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants us to become perfect,2 and if we stay on the path of discipleship, one day we will. It’s OK that you’re not quite there yet. Keep working on it, but stop punishing yourself.

    Long   Perfect   Goal  
  • Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

    Life   Strength   Wisdom  
  • I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

    "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.
  • Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

  • My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

    Christian Dior (2007). “Dior by Dior”, Victoria & Albert Museum
  • As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

    Life   Peace   Simple  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby
  • The helpless can't help the helpless.

    Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.52, New Directions Publishing
  • "You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day." said Lionheart Tigerclaw growled. "Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack."

    Heart   Warrior   Giving  
    "Into the Wild". Book by Erin Hunter, 2003.
  • Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

  • When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

    Depressing   Art   Strong  
  • If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 155. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
  • I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness in prose, I find I like the way translated texts can sometimes acquire awkwardness in the process of translation. There's a discordance translation can create which I think is sometimes seen as a weakness but which I think can be a really interesting aspect of the text.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

    Men   Safety   Soul  
    FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Nov 01, 2014
  • Try to look for weaknesses in your thinking.

  • There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

    Men   Weakness   Enmity  
  • Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

    Team   Mistake   Issues  
  • You see a lot of fear among Republicans. Oh, man, this guy [Donald Trump] has a lot of vulnerabilities and weaknesses that`s not been tested at all yet.

    Men   Guy   Weakness  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.

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