Quotes about Vulnerability
Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
— Publilius Syrus
Little hearts, though safe and protected, never contribute anything. No one benefits from their shrunken sympathies and visions. On the other hand, hearts that have embraced the disciplines of ministry—though they are vulnerable—are also the hearts that possess the most joy and leave their heart prints on the world. Cultivate
— Kent Hughes
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
— Brene Brown
When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.
— Stanley Hauerwas
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
— Al Gore
Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.
— Jay-Z
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
— John Ortberg
We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.
— David Harewood
People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me.
— Viv Albertine
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
— James Allen
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
— Wendell Berry