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Failing Quotes by Saint Augustine
- In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
- Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If…
- Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those…
- Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love…
- In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never…
More Failing Quotes
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera
- A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire.… — Christian Bale
- It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. — Mark Twain