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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. -- Jean Vanier
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. -- Thomas a Kempis
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. -- William Hazlitt
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. -- Mignon McLaughlin
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him. -- Yvette Nicole Brown
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -- Thomas A. Edison
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. -- Paul Valery
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire
Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression. -- James E. Faust
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. -- Robert E. Lee
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. -- Archibald Cox
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. -- Kin Hubbard
One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others. -- David A. Bednar
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Our strength grows out of our weakness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. -- Thomas A. Edison
Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. -- Angela Ahrendts
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness -- Muriel Rukeyser
Our weakness is an invitation to discover God's strength. -- Carlos A. Rodriguez
God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness. -- Kevin DeYoung
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness -- Jean Vanier
I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength. -- Gene Stallings
But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. -- Umberto Eco
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. -- Luc de Clapiers
We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression. -- Ronald Reagan
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. -- Meher Baba
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. -- Royal Robbins
What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives. -- Gary Chapman
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. -- Barack Obama
Silence is not our weakness, this is the power to forgive and accept you. -- Gaurav GRV Sharma
We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong. -- Watchman Nee
We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage. -- Rick Scott
We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness. -- Jack Kemp
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. -- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. -- Donald O. Clifton
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. -- Robert A. Heinlein
We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness -- Jimmy Carter
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. -- Francois Fenelon
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. -- Francois Fenelon
Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. -- Luc de Clapiers
We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness. -- Ernest Thesiger
Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living. -- Kay Arthur
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. -- Oriana Fallaci
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. -- J. I. Packer
Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. -- Swami Vivekananda
We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus. -- Mike Bickle
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. -- Desmond Tutu
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves. -- Oswald Chambers
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness. -- Saint Augustine
Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths. -- Frank Broyles
Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow. -- Tony Blair
The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength. -- Frank Bartleman
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness. -- Lisa Kleypas
Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for. -- Theodore Epp
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. -- Paulo Coelho
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. -- Jean Vanier
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength. -- Winston Churchill
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own. -- William Penn
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being. -- Albert Einstein
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. -- Johann Georg Hamann
People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths. -- Rick Warren
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives. -- BrenÃ© Brown
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues. -- Therese of Lisieux
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency. -- Alistair Begg
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness. -- Jack Kornfield
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. -- Swami Vivekananda
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man. -- Khalil Gibran
I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is. -- Max Lucado
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear? -- Therese of Lisieux
We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow. -- Jose Saramago
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. -- Thomas Keating
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. -- John Vanbrugh
Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat. -- George W. Bush
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness. -- Michel de Montaigne
The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty. -- Pope Leo I
Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days! -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power. -- Oswald Chambers
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. -- Moshe Dayan
The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate. -- D. H. Lawrence
Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity. -- Dick Cheney
We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors. -- George W. Bush
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us. -- Jean de la Bruyere
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death. -- Robert Walser
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. -- Anthony Walton
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough. -- Marvin Harris
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth. -- Rich Mullins
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own. -- Charles Caleb Colton
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions. -- Learned Hand
I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things. -- Lex Luger
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it. -- David Hume
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources. -- Steve Buyer
No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity. -- Max More
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love. -- Andy Murray
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child. -- George Whitefield
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all. -- Tryon Edwards
God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls. -- Dwight L. Moody
My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength. -- Robert Peel
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness. -- Therese of Lisieux
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker. -- Honore de Balzac

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