Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon TrotskyTags: life cynicism weakness misery
You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
Wallace StegnerTags: strength power weakness control
Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.”
“Every man?”
“Yes,” he answered emphatically.
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“What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked.
“You.
Tags: weakness
Every weakness contains within itself a strength.
Shūsaku EndōTags: weakness
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
Criss JamiTags: inspirational kindness weakness purity criticism sincerity envy necessary good-intentions motives intentions bad-intentions spot validity
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
Criss JamiTags: fear paradox strength honesty humility weak weakness denial honest humble correction facing-fear reversal fear-of-failure facing-problems reverse facing lying-to-ourselves strengthening weakening
In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
Criss JamiTags: strength world weakness envy excellence mockery helping superhuman aid better-world
To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.
Criss JamiTags: strength weakness impossible flaws excellence scar imperfection ignore amazing attributes unbelievable cherry adversary traits acceptable complimentary features rearrange
God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.
Criss JamiTags: man god will atheism weakness sin salvation control worship glory redemption relationship apologetics agnosticism sovereignty antitheistic depravity theism falling gods-will sovereignty-of-god glory-of-god stumble diminish lift
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