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“We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.”

Pay Grace Failing Style Failure Defeat Wit Triumph Mediocre Success Failure Insufferable Still Life With Woodpecker

Author:Bruce Barton

“Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.”

Form Fall Grace Failing Sacred Ancient Senses Host Defects Adoration Hail Rite Departing

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?”

Ifs Thinking Stills Turns Leader Virtue Grace Failing Ideals Surprise Stupidity Compromise Beast Nonsense Fades Modesty Pale Antiquity Calendars Barricades Backsides

Author:Elvis Costello

“We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.”

Needs Remember Grace Failing Succeed Saved Saved By Grace

Author:Timothy Keller

“There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.”

People Grace Failing Faults Accomplishment Charm

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.”

May Grows Silence Grace Failing Neglect Printed

Book:The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

“So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.”

Christian Mother Voice Grace Failing Danger Son Arms Listening Holy Battle Offers Embrace Loud Finding Yourself Mary Tenderness Refuge Loud Voices Holy Mary Mother Mary

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.”

Jesus Names Grace Failing Rocks Sweet Filled Stores Hiding Shields Boundless Treasury Hiding Place

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

“Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.”

Giving Humans Book Sometimes Mistake Break Grace Failing Creating Handle Making Mistakes Setback Everyone Makes Mistakes Beating Yourself Beating Yourself Up

Author:Les Brown

“Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.”

Ifs Mean Littles Christian Order Christ Church Successful Grace Failing Ought Prove Chiefs Being Successful Christian Family Family Education

Book:The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I

“Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love - and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.”

World Firsts Action Christian Speak Water Principles Grace Failing Listening Judgment News Communicate Translate Good News Lofty Thirsty God's Grace Unheard Basic Principles Condescending

Author:Philip Yancey