Zora Neale Hurston Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Responsibility, Men, Omnipotence

• I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

• To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Weakness, Odor, Arms

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