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 more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. This alone I know, that without you all to me is misery, woe outside myself and woe within, and all wealth but penury, if it is not my God.
Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp. It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.
Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right. ' It never fails to see 'the little picture.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
. . . education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.
A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. . . Unable either to say them all or choose between them, I do as a child would do who cannot read-I say just what I want to say to God, quite simply, and he never fails to understand.
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.
Everything seems stupid when it fails.
I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.
Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.