Pastoral Resources

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.

The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.

I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.