“Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.”
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 12
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“Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.”
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 12
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Variant: The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) French bishop and theologian
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
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The Golden Violet (1827)
“Only the weak will fall and give up, the strong falls 100 times and wakes up 200 times”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775), Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 108