Pastoral Resources

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.