"Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes……" — Alexander MacLaren

"Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties"

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62 Quotes by Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's…
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he…
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of…
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a…
We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we…
The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the…

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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of… — Joseph Addison
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are… — Annie Besant
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but… — William Ellery Channing
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If… — Vernon Howard
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty… — Sun Tzu
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
Success covers a multitude of blunders. — George Bernard Shaw
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith

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