Quotes about Failure

But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...

A setback is a setup for a comeback.

I never doubted my standing in the next life, but I often felt shame in this life, constantly disappointing God in my failure to love as He asked me to love. As such, I was caught in a kind of stupor of unworthiness.

Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.

So many Christians today see a system in which they cannot measure up and so they feel unworthy. The church seems to have failed them.

Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we're always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they'll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.