Quotes about Failure

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.

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. If you reject the ragamuffin gospel and turn your back on Christianity, do so because you find the answers of Jesus incredible, blasphemous, or hopelessly hopeful.

If the church remains self-righteously aloof from failures, irreligious and immoral people, it cannot enter justified into God's kingdom. But if it is constantly aware of its guilt and sin, it can live in joyous awareness of forgiveness. The promise has been given to it that anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.9

But if I've learned anything about the world of grace, it's that failure is always a chance for a do-over.

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When