Quotes about Failure
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
— Anne Lamott
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
— Timothy Keller
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
— William James
The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
— Mark Batterson
God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.
— John Maxwell
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
— Oprah Winfrey
Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
— Tullian Tchividjian