The most often repeated and least digested business/life/ministry/sports maxim is: You Learn from Failure.  

• Failure is success if we learn from it.  Malcolm S. Forbes
• Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.  Chinese Proverb
• I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.  ~Thomas Edison
• Try again.  Fail again.  Fail better.  ~Samuel Beckett
• Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  ~Henry Ford
• There is no failure.  Only feedback.  ~Robert Allen
• Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.  ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• You always pass failure on your way to success.  ~Mickey Roone 

Sometimes failure is the result of a particular sin in our lives. Other times, failure has nothing to do with sin. In either case, our failures present another obstacle when it comes to trusting Jesus, especially when we feel we have failed many times. I have certainly failed many times in my life.

As an athlete, I let my team down. As writer, I have had manuscripts rejected by multiple publishers. As a student, I had to drop Latin. I’ve failed to raise financial support as a missionary. As a single man who has never married, I’ve failed in some of my dating relationships.

Have you ever felt like a failure? Maybe it was an unsuccessful career, a botched marriage, or a stupid mistake that ruined a friendship. Feeling like a complete failure can be a lonely experience.