Quotes about Vulnerability

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

In neglecting our intense emotions, we are false to ourselves and lose a wonderful opportunity to know God. We forget that change comes through brutal honesty and vulnerability before God.

The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.

Externally I had appeared kind, gracious, and patient, when inwardly I was nothing like that. I so wanted to present a polished image as a good Christian that I cut myself off from what was going on within myself. Unconsciously I had been thinking: I hope I am a good-enough Christian. Will this couple like us? Will they think we are okay? Will John give a good report of his visit to my pastor friend? Pretending was safer than honesty and vulnerability. The

In the Psalms, we see that he holds nothing back, freely pouring out his fears, despair, anger, and shame.

We all have shortcomings.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?

I feel just like the boy who stubbed his toe—too damned badly hurt to laugh and too damned proud to cry!