Weakening Quotes

Weakening Quote of the day

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Nothing is so weakening as regret.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.

Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

Senator Obama's support among hardworking Americans - white Americans - is weakening.

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.