Falling Short Quotes

“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.”
― Ufuoma Apoki

“Worrying, trying harder, and always feeling like you are falling short is the opposite of God's will for your life. God does not want your effort: He wants your love.”
― Marnie Swedberg, Flow Through Vessel: How to Master the Habit of Letting God Flow Through You

“Dear reader, here is a sad truth: you and I fall short of being humans. We own up to this when we admit to being sinners. Sin is not something we add to ourselves and need to get rid of (although it can feel like that; our sins constitute a 'burden' that 'is intolerable,' according to a traditional prayer, and the Epistle to the Hebrews speaks of 'the sin that clings so closely' [12:1 NRSV]). Rather, sin actually is a defect, a falling short on our part of living up to our nature, a failure to be human in the full sense. We sinners, who live among sinners, never have seen in the flesh a totally real human being. The astonishing claim is that Jesus is the one, true, complete human being.

So when we say that Jesus is like us in all things except sin, we are not saying that we have something, 'sin,' which Jesus fails to have. It's the opposite: Jesus has something we do not have--namely, full humanity from which nothing has been broken off and taken away.

And yet, sinners that we be, we do have Jesus...”
― Victor Lee Austin, Friendship: The Heart of Being Human