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Weakness Quotes - Page 11

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.

Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.148, Christian Fellowship Publishers

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

"Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. II), 1916.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.268, Knopf

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.648, Princeton University Press

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.262, Discovery House