Quotes about Mistake

The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.

Once—twice—you gave me the chance to escape from my life, and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward. Afterward I saw my mistake—I saw I could never be happy with what had contented me before. But it was too late: you had judged me—I understood. It was too late for happiness—but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I have lived on—don't take it from me now!

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

As one can hardly find any thing in a house where nothing keeps its place, but all is cast on a heap together; so it is in the heart where all things are in disorder, especially when darkness is added to this disorder: so that the hear t is like an obscure cave or dungeon, where there is but a little crevice of light, and a man must rather grope than see No wonder if men mistake in searching such a heat, sand so miscarry in judging of their estate (304).

Before transformation, sin is any kind of moral mistake; afterward, sin is a mistake about who you are and whose you are.

You cannot avoid sin or mistake anyway (Romans 5:12), but if you try too fervently, it often creates even worse problems.

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.

It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.