But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
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