Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained.
Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
Man with frailty is allied by birth.
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.