Erring Quotes - Page 2

• If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
  I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham.
  Each little fault of temper and each social defect
  In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Attention, Littles

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

  John B. Larson

  Children, School, Common Sense

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• It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

  Epictetus

  Advice, Upbraid, Advise

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• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

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• That power Which erring men call Chance.

  John Milton

  Men, Chance

  'Comus' (1637) l. 586

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• All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

  Alexander Pope

  Chance, Discord

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

  George Eliot

  Long, Secret, Suffering

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.595, George Eliot

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• All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Evil, Chance

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Home, Heart, Adversity

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• All nature is but art unknown to thee.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Nature, Literature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Mean, Decision

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• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Vices, Haughtiness

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66

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• Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

  Michelangelo

  Men, Laughing, Might

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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• Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Happiness, Strong

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328

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• The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

  Richard Rolle

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Intuition, Acting

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• ...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fear, Fall, Errors

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• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

  Florence Nightingale

  Character, Self, Law

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• A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

  William Wordsworth

  Light, Guides, Checks

  'Ode to Duty' (1807)

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• Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Brother, Men

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• The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no
  true demonstrations.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Imitation, Guides

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.512

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• Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Purgatory, Labor, Labour

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• There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Judgment, Harsh, Young

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• Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Sister, War, Ideas

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• [On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

  Ida Tarbell

  Christian, Business, Fall

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