The Nerve of Failure
“The quality that should mark the Christian church is not goodness, but grace, not merit, but mercy, not moralism, but forgiveness, not the enshrinement of success, but the acceptance of failure … Lacking the nerve of failure, we have suffered a failure of nerve—to dare to dream dreams, venture visi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1977
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Theology today
Year: 1977, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-149 |
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| Summary: | “The quality that should mark the Christian church is not goodness, but grace, not merit, but mercy, not moralism, but forgiveness, not the enshrinement of success, but the acceptance of failure … Lacking the nerve of failure, we have suffered a failure of nerve—to dare to dream dreams, venture visions, and risk getting splinters that come from cutting against the grain.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057367703400202 |