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We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.
One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.
I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.
Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!
We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?
When I get back to Derry I always enjoy a good fry-up that my mum makes. That's my big weakness. I also eat too much chocolate.
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.
I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.
In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
I feel a lot stronger than I ever have done since I've had kids, because you have to be: you don't want them to see any weakness.
Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.
You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof
Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
My weakness is pizza, any form of carbohydrate. I like junk carbohydrates, I like cheap greasy cheeseburgers, quality french fries.
Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.
I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.