Pastoral Resources

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.