Quotes about Vulnerability
...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.
— Sheila Walsh
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.
— Timothy Keller
Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.
— Maura Tierney
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
— Pema Chodron
Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent--always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
— Andrew Jackson
Fear is trusting in your own power.
— Marianne Williamson
The man without emotions is the one to fear.
— Frank Herbert
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
— Margaret Atwood
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
— Marianne Williamson
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
— Henry Ward Beecher
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
— Henry Cloud