Quotes about Fault

Christianity teaches that the world is broken, and this brokenness is out fault. And the only way it can be fixed is through God's work. It's a work that only God can do and there are no other options. The biblical teaching is consistent on this point. This is not about the Bible being intolerant or sounding crazy. It's simply an ancient story stemming back to the creation, a story of one God who sent one Savior, Jesus, to be the way to relate to him and be in relationship with him.

But I observed, though I was such a great sinner before conversion, yet God never much charged the guilt of the sins of my ignorance upon me; only He showed me, I was lost if I had not Christ, because I had been a sinner: I saw that I wanted a perfect righteousness to present me without fault before God, and this righteousness was no where to be found, but in the Person of Jesus Christ.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there are hope.

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Thus we never see the one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethical and political problems: that we are all more or less wrong, that we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, our self-deception, our greed, our self-righteousness and our tendency to aggressivity and hypocrisy.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.