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    François de La Rochefoucauld
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    If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

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    Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    Genesis 4:3-10 , 1 Samuel 15:13-24 , Isaiah 29:13-15 , Luke 18:9-14, James 2:10-13 , Psalm 32:3-5
    We readily confess our little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.

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    Ray C. Stedman
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    It goes against the grain to give an image of oneself that is anything less than perfect, and many Christians imagine that they will be rejected by others if they admit to any faults. But nothing coul...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Ephesians 4:2-3, Colossians 3:12-13, Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 6:37, 2 Peter 3:9, Psalm 103:8, 1 Timothy 1:16
    Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious tha...

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    Henry Cloud
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    James 5:16, Ecclesiastes 4:10
    We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for...

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    Mike Martin
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    Evading self-acknowledgment of our faults enables us to avoid painful moral emotions: guilt and remorse for harming others; shame for betraying your own ideals; self-contempt for not meeting even our ...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

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    Les and Leslie Parrott
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    Marriages can never be perfect because people are not perfect. Being human, every bride and groom has faults as well as virtues. We are at times gloomy, cranky, selfish, or unreasonable. We are a mixt...

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    The disastrous and widening cleavage between the Church and the Arts on the one hand and between the State and the Arts on the other leaves the common man with the impression that the artist is someth...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Luke 18:11, Proverbs 6:16-19
    One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the ‘plank’ of pride in our own eye, we are not capable of ...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    A brotherly mind will love in me what you teach to be lovable, and will regret in me what you teach to be regrettable. This is a mark of a Christian brother's mind, not an outsider's--not that...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Proverbs 27:6
    Only the truly faithful friend cares enough about you or me to undertake the often thankless task of pointing out where we are wrong. None of us enjoys being confronted with our faults or sins or mist...

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    Francis de Sales
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    Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can t...

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    John Calvin
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    We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure...

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    Rick Warren
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    One of the ways we reflect God's love and bring him glory is to accept each other just as he accepts us. This means we accept others' quirks and look past their faults in order to see a person...

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    Ayishat Akanbi
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    James 5:16, Psalm 147:3, Philippians 4:6-7, Proverbs 19:11, Colossians 3:13
    If you’ve decided your healing is dependent on other people acknowledging their faults you’ll still be waiting in your grave.

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    John Chrysostom
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    Matthew 5:4, Psalm 6:6, Isaiah 1:18, Jeremiah 31:9, James 4:9-10, Joel 2:12-13, Psalm 51:17
    The fire of sin is intense, but it is put out by a small amount of tears, for the tear puts out a furnace of faults, and cleans our wounds of sin.

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    Ignatius of Loyola
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    We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fear...

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    John Calvin
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    Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

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    William Shakespeare
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    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

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    D. L. Moody
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    You may find hundreds of faultfinders among professed Christians; but all their criticism will not lead one solitary soul to Christ.

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    Charles Kettering
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    Psalm 37:23-24, Joshua 1:9, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Isaiah 40:31, James 1:2-4, Proverbs 24:16
    Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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    Marcus Aurelius
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    Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

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    G.V. Wigram
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    When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

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    Leonard Cohen
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    There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

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    Ernest Hemingway
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    The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

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    John Ortberg
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    Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

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    Bryan Stevenson
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    We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

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    Jamie Dimon
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    Scripture
    Isaiah 1:18, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Romans 3:23-24, Psalm 32:5, Acts 3:19, Proverbs 28:13
    We know mistakes were made.

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    Sadhu Sundar Singh
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    During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering c...
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