Quotes About Failure

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

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.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

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.

If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.

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.

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.

God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

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.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

God's 'failures' are really man's failures.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.