Spiritual Thoughts

I t is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. ~J.K. Rowling L isten to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. ~ Proverbs 19:20

It's always too early to quit. -Norman Vincent Peale    BUT I have prayed for you that your faith  may not fail. And when you have   turned again, strengthen your brothers. -Luke 22:32

Ever tried?  Every failed?  No matter.  Try again. Fail again.     Try better.  Fail better.  Learn. -Samuel Beckett  Consider Him who endured from sinners   such hostility against himself, so that     you may not grow weary or faint-hearted.  -Hebrews 12:3

            A man can fail many times,    but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else. - John Burroughs Some people ruin themselves by their own stupid actions               and then blame the LORD. Proverbs 19:3

So you have failed? You cannot fail. You have not failed; you have gained experience.                Forward! -Josemaría Escrivá It was good for me to be afflicted    so that I might learn your decrees.  The law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold. Psalms 119:71-72 

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling        with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here,           now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether,        in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer.           Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. - Phillips Brooks Remember how it was with you in the past. In those days, after God's light had shone on you,             you suffered many things, yet were not defeated by the struggle. Hebrews 10:32