Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life problems and terrors.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages home runs errors ERAs win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Since therefore no man is born without faults and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice and were indulged not only with impunity but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment repeated every day.
Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead failure is a few errors in judgement repeated every day.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
In these dangerous times where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
True love makes the thought of death frequent easy without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison the price one would pay for many things.
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!