George Eliot Quotes About Weakness

• There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

  George Eliot

  Weakness, Common, Mercy

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

• There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

  George Eliot

  Love, Names, Weakness

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.91

• It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

  George Eliot

  Death, Brother, Journey

• The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

  George Eliot

  Prayer, Powerful, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.318, 谷月社

• It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

  George Eliot

  Men, Weakness, Sacred

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.282

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