#lure

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#experience #failure #learning-from-mistakes #mistakes #richelle

To make the fastest progress, Be an absolutely cheerful Hero-warrior And take both victory and failure As parallel experience rivers Leading to the sea Of progress-delight. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#failure #hero-warrior #progress #victory-defeat #experience

Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away? ↗

— Bernadette Pajer

#experiment #failure #power #experience

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #the-fortune-in-failing #experience

Success is being right all the time, and still fail. ↗

— Anonymous

#right #success #experience

Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it. ↗

— Jayne Lockwood

#life-experience #experience

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#failure #success #truth #faith

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue in it after failure?" Vin frowned. "Anyone can believe in someone or something that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure . . . ah, now that is hard to believe in certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#failure #faith #hope #faith

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#discipleship #failure #faithfulness #prodigal #faith

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied, 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way! ↗

— Minnie Louise Haskins

#christianity #faith #fear #fear-of-failure #fear-unknown