Quotes about Vulnerability

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit's great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.

the greatest barrier to intimacy is fear -- fear of being known, fear of being rejected, fear of facing the truth about ourselves... ...We are afraid to be known because at some deep level we fear that the truth about us, when out in the open and reflected back to us through someone else's eyes, will be shocking to ourselves.

Jesus never encouraged His friends to cover over the pain in their lives, but to bring it into the light, where healing is found. Sometimes we don't do that because we fear being rejected by others. Yes, rejection may well happen, but bringing the pain to the light is still the best way to live. It will take much courage, but it will bring freedom.

We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.

Without shelter, we stand in daylight.

my heart felt like a soft, damaged place in my chest, like a bruise on a peach.

All those hopes placed in such a precarious vessel.