FAULTS

See also Confession of sin; Fault-finding; Mistakes; Perfection

A fault confessed is half redressed.

Author unknown

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

Do not be discouraged at your faults; bear with yourself in correcting them, as you would with your neighbor. Lay aside this ardor of mind, which exhausts your body, and leads you to commit errors. Accustom yourself gradually to carry prayer into all your daily occupations. Speak, move, work, in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

François Fénelon

We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.

Francis de Sales

A fault, once denied, is twice committed.

Thomas Fuller

He is lifeless that is faultless.

J. Heywood

Not in committing, but in prolonging acts of folly is the shame.

Horace

It is right that someone who asks pardon for his own faults should be willing to pardon others.

Horace

Only great men have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld

Who never admits wrong loves pride more than facts.

Proverb

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

Teresa of Avila