Found Wanting Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment…
— Murray Kempton
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Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example,…
— Jerry Bridges
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Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting,…
— Norman Lamm
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The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has…
— John Baillie
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This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often,…
— Os Guinness
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At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a…
— Evgeny Morozov
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In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have…
— Maya Angelou
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Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
— Stephen King
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There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,…
— Ilona Andrews
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My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is…
— Deborah Harkness
Who Wrote These Found Wanting Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Found Wanting Quotes as follows: