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“Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.”

World Mean Failing This World Goodness And Love Beloved His Love Hold Fast

Book:God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation into the Father Heart of God

Source: God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation into the Father Heart of God

“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”

Humans Has Beens Age Past Race Vision Failing Society Century Human Nature Goodness Noble Doctrine Golden Human Race Mischief Whim Golden Age

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

People Way Needs Kind Self Play Helping Running Christian Lying Jesus Kindness Failing Sacrifice Danger Development Goodness Be Kind Self Development

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.”

Source: The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes

“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.”

Ifs May Values Taken Failing Blessing Goodness Good Friend

Author:William Ellery Channing

“The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!”

Real Might Failing Goodness Doing Good

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and goodness rather than weakness and failings in those who did so great a work in their time. We recognize that our forefathers were human. They doubtless made mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making mistakes. But the mistakes were minor when compared with the marvelous work which they accomplished.”

Humans Looks Made Church Mistake Failing Goodness Weakness Accomplished Making Mistakes Minors Marvelous Made A Mistake Forefathers Search For Truth

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley