Pastoral Resources

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.