Franklin Pierce Quotes

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

It takes great strength and courage to ask for help.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

I don't want to be all power and muscle.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day

One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

How little authority I have

My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)