“I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.”
Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights
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Source: Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
“When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
Christian's Mistake (1865). p. 64
Context: When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.