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Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.

Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.

Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.

People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.

Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

Share your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.