Richard Rohr Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

  Richard Rohr

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Growth

• Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Fall, Falling Apart

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

• The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.

  Richard Rohr

  School, Rocks, Self

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

• When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

  Richard Rohr

  Humanity, Joining, Failing

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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