Weak And Powerless Quotes

#1. The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#2. The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the

Roy Barnes

#3. Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.

Judith Lewis Herman

#4. There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

George Crabbe

#5. The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

Jerome Frank

#6. And Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.

Samuel Beckett

#7. I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.

Stephanie Adams

#8. If you want to feel how utterly powerless you are apart from the living God, attempt especially the great work of proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ, and you will know, as you never knew before, what a weak, unworthy thing you are. Although

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

Bassem Youssef

#10. Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. The turmoil of the day freezes in a thousand absurd postures.

Samuel Beckett

#12. Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

Khalil Gibran

#13. Unfaithful in prayer, weak in the working of the Spirit, its witness to Christ a mere formality, and unfaithful to its worldwide mission - such are the marks of a powerless church.

Andrew Murray

#14. Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?

Matthew Arnold

#15. It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.

Ahmet Ertegun

#16. 6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

Russ Carnahan

#17. Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all - humility cares.

Bryant McGill

#18. Here are some key words to go along with shame: Inferior Alienated Embarrassed Minority Ridiculed Weak Powerless Failure Different Insulted Rejected Inadequate Humiliated Ignored Loser

Edward T. Welch

#19. Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

Alan Keyes

#20. One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but because it has been removed by a movement with a credible alternative that inspires. For those of us who want a different sort of society, it is surely time to get our act together.

Owen Jones

#21. Discouragement is a mental disorder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I understand fine," Kevin said bitterly. "I just think it's fucked. God is either powerless, or stupid or he doesn't give a shit. Or all three. He's evil, dumb and weak. I think I'll start my own Exegesis.

Philip K. Dick

#23. That's love? To let someone beat you and be hateful to you? These people are all so ... Weak. Powerless to change their lives. I know the feeling. All you can do is take it. No one understands how it beats you down.

Julie Anne Peters

#24. Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

Edward McKendree Bounds