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Quotes About Shortcoming

Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth.
~ Julia Cameron
We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we are in the mess, remember Jesus made it right. We got to hang on to that by faith.
~ Jud Wilhite
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
~ James Thurber
Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
~ Mark Batterson
Conversely, the failures that a man makes in his life are due almost always to some defect in his personality
~ Ron Chernow
a great man. But...not quite great enough.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Flags never add to a man, d'you see, just stand in for something he's missing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
~ Anonymous
And let each failure and shortcoming simply urge us to turn humbly and meekly to the meek and lowly Lamb of God, in the assurance that where He is enthroned in the heart, His humility and gentleness will be one of the streams of living water that flow from within us.
~ Andrew Murray
In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.
~ John Biggins
We have all fallen short of the glory of God.
~ Monica Johnson
Die Lucia is volmaakt!" "Dat zou je denken," Giacomo klinkt plotseling bedrukt. "Ze heeft alleen één ernstige tekortkoming." "Welke dan?" "Zij is te jong." Hij meende het, maar zijn broer moest lachen: "Wat een schitterend gebrek!
~ Arthur Japin
People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.
~ Sushma Swaraj
I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer's life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity. The
~ Gregory A. Boyd
What did one say when a gentleman confessed to a shortcoming? She couldn't recall ever hearing one do so before, but surely, sometime in the course of history, some gentleman had. (Lucy about Gregory, On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn).
~ Julia Quinn
Such actions underline the one almost inevitable shortcoming of national academies. However progressive and far-seeing they may be to begin with, they almost always exert over time a depressive effect on change. So
~ Bill Bryson
In the end, everything is found to be wanting.
~ Frank Lentricchia
The vision of Van Helsing as a vampire is one before which my imagination balks; this is doubtless only a shortcoming on my part; he may have been well fitted for the role, since as we have seen he had already the power, by means of speech, to cast his victims into a stupor.
~ Fred Saberhagen
But Unix had a serious shortcoming: No common version existed. Over the years different versions of Unix had proliferated like weeds, so that an application written for one would not run unmodified on another. While DOS presented a single target to consumers, applications writers and computer makers, Unix did not.
~ G. Pascal Zachary
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.
~ browning robert ii
we've all sinned; we've all come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).
~ Kenneth E. Hagin
A crucial shortcoming of many cryptocurrencies is excessive volatility.
~ Campbell R. Harvey
They found it difficult to accept that their grasp was a little short. But
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb