#lure

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

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#birth-rate #family #socioeconomic-failure #socioeconomics #standard-of-living

I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes. ↗

— Paul Kelly

#wrong #food

To err is human, to forgive, divine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#forgiveness #humanity #mistakes #forgiveness

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#fear #freedom #freedom

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#living #moving-on #regrets #funny