Posts tagged failure
Posts tagged failure
You must not judge a man by any one act of his life, for every man is again and again false to himself. Nor must you judge a nation or a community or a church by any special characteristic that may have belonged to it at a particular time. All have the right to be judged by the sum and substance of its life; by the net result of good and bad, of failure and success.
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose to be best.
I dare not fail.
If we Unitarian Universalists have made any progress on issues of gender, sexual identity, race – or problems of simply living together as families and friends – it has begun with the acknowledgement that we will screw up and we will need forgiveness…Forgiveness is not one act. It is a relationship.
Even when our hearts are broken by our own failure or the failure of others, even when we have done all we can and life is still broken, there is a universal love that has never broken faith with us and never will
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity
