Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record. " They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.
He turns our weaknesses into His opportunities
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.
A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory. . . allows us to believe that the modern experience of. . . . debt. . . is in any way a new phenomenon.
The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.
Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.
Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.