Quotes about Failure
God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
— Tullian Tchividjian
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
— St. Augustine
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
— RC Sproul
To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.
— Loraine Boettner
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
— Charles Spurgeon
God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
— Timothy Keller
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
— NT Wright
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
— Max Lucado
The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
— Jerry Bridges
If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
— John Piper