Vulnerability Quotes

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.

Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this.

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.

We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world.

What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.

Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.

Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted.

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us.

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.

When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.

Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.

you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.

Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.

People can be at their most vulnerable, but still tenacious at the same time.

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.