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“I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.”

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

Love May Shows Love You Weak Love Yourself Provoking

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.”

Ifs Humans Looks May Causes Pride Built Weak Foundation Storm Fragile Collapse Cornerstones Conditional Human Wisdom Conditional Love Weak Foundation

Author:Charles Stanley

“The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”

World May Hard Hands Eye Moving Courses Strong Weak Deeds Wheels Elsewhere Quests Fellowship Of The Ring Small Hands

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.”

Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

Ifs Thinking Way May Sometimes Seems Past Memories Forget Wonderful Findings Weak Miracle Inequality Faculty Obedient Bewildered Mansfield Park Past Memories Beyond Control

Book:Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”

“I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.”

Ifs World Should Heart May Children Littles Soul Self Body Suffering Asks Broken Praying Weak And Love Charity Unhappy Righteous Unfortunate Hideous Praying To God Self Righteous

Author:John Wyndham

“Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.”

Way May Different Soul Whole Helping Three Seeing Broken Ego Weak Different Ways Serving Fixing

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”

May Lying Fool Weak

Book:The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

Source: The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

“...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.”

Ifs May Doe Sometimes Inspiration Seems Names Sadness Land Loneliness Circumstances Comfort Glory Weak Let Me Witness Far Away Tiredness

Author:Amy Carmichael

“But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

Source: Persuasion: World Classics

“Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.”

“I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!”

Men Heart May Done Jesus Christ Sin Lord Evolution Jesus Christ Weak Salvation Sinner Gift From God Free Gifts

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38

“There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.”

Men World May Matter Character Weak Harder Occasions Comparison Anything And Everything

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

May Has Beens Weak Unjust Persuasion Resentful Anne Elliot

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

Knows Men May Values Strong Loses Known Weak Strong Man Weak Man

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.”

Ifs Men May Different Philosophy Opinion Sun Modern Habit Fit Moon Weak Mere Every Man Suits Cosmos Cosmic Irrational

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.”

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

May Real Enough Weakness Weak Tests Do You Love Me Love Strength

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“Although I’m weak and full of flaws, I will never stop moving forward. No matter who I am, no one other than myself will create my own existence. No matter what others may think or feel, I will still move forward as myself.”

Thinking Feels Heart May Stills Matter Moving My Own Existence Weak No Matter What Who I Am Moving Forward Flaws Pandora Hearts

Author:Jun Mochizuki

“Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And it is a maxim Allowed among them, so they may deceive, They may swear anything; for the queen of love, As they hold constantly, does never punish, But smile, at lovers' perjuries.”

Men Life May Doe Ends Lovers Promise Weak Performances Queens Giants Great Men Deceiving Swear Maxims Perjury

Book:The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge

Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge

“It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.”

May Doe Matter Might Church Cry Worship Weak Drunk Lifts Atmosphere Lame

Author:T. D. Jakes

“To the humble, the Lord has given this promise: "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me."”

Ifs Men Giving May Shows Strong Grace Humility Weakness Weak Humble Sufficient Have Faith Be Humble

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by God. On the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ was in trouble, as the world sees things. But when the sinful world considered Him to be completely destroyed, in fact He was victorious over death and hades. The Lord did not promise us positions as victors as a reward for righteousness, but told us, "In the world you will have tribulation - but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world".”

“... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.”

World Humans May Has Beens Law Strong Nations Justice Modern Promise Weapons Weak Climate Pity Human Life

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.”

Ifs May Art War Grows Weak Opponents Temper Arrogant Art Of War

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

“There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.”

Men Kind May Littles Desire Universe Energy Secret Weak Currents Heavy Limitation Carrie Quantity Electric Unlimited Wire Borrowed Gauges Multiplication

Author:Walter Russell

“A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.”

Men Humans May Science Weak Scientist Accounts Pursuit

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.”

“Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak and willing followers of some tyrant. Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge. And a method that encourages variety is also the only method that is comparable with a humanitarian outlook.”

Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

“For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may learn from his example to be meek and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interests but those of God.”

Heart May Night Interest Levels Moral Virtue Grace Example Comfort Draws Weak Raises Blessed Humble Midst Sacraments Fullness Day And Night Meek Sorrowful Blessed Sacrament

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.”

Men May Made Important Names Grows Support Study Criticism Weak Critics Ignorant Vanity Expenses Idleness Formidable

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.”

Way May Darkness Sun Ignorance Taste Weak Busy Arise Regions Horizon Rescue Uncertain Entering Mislead Borrowed Traveller Forsaken Orbs

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.”

Ifs May Soul Shows Wisdom Wish Tears Spring Weak Mercy Green Your Soul Islamic Shed Show Me Herbs

Author:Rumi

“Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”

People Mind Firsts May Made Enough Father Poor Deals Race Break Support Economy Rich Mets Disease Weak Possession Soil Our Father Tithe Overbearing

Author:Sitting Bull

“Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions operating simply because they provide jobs.”

May Hard Philosophy Jobs Political Strong Sound Serious Economics Weak Institutions Financial Requirements Hearted Financial Institutions

Author:Paul Krugman

“[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.”

May Country Freedom Liberty Sacrifice Weak Our Country

Book:The works of Alexander Hamilton; compris. his corresp. and his polit. and official writings, excl. of the federalist, civil and military. Ed. by John C. Hamilton

Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton; compris. his corresp. and his polit. and official writings, excl. of the federalist, civil and military. Ed. by John C. Hamilton

“One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.”

May Young Strong Female Weak Males Features Engaged Martial Arts Karate

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.”

May Reason Certain Religion Strong Fire Trouble Judging Source Comfort Evidence Weak Warm Accepted Uncertainty Appropriate Propositions Bleak Source Of Happiness

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”

Knows Want Feels May Hands Government Law Order Poor Rich Ready Authority Weak Bases Chains Acknowledge Fishing Protest Free Will Steel Spiders Spider Web

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”