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God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. -- Mary Daly
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others. -- Pope Leo XIII
In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. -- Elliott Abrams
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together. -- Brene Brown
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. -- Edward de Bono
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. -- Ken Thompson
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country. -- Simon Le Bon
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. -- Julian Barnes
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. -- Benjamin Haydon
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. -- Patricia A. McKillip
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless. -- Lorrie Moore
Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence. -- John C. Maxwell
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency. -- Alistair Begg
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer. -- Victor Hugo
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. -- Blaise Pascal
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. -- Eleanor Catton
In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness. -- Peter Abrahams
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. -- Rowan Williams
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless. -- Christopher Reeve
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world. -- Alicia Keys
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. -- Carl Jung
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished. -- Will Self
God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life. -- Charles Stanley
One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential. -- Anthony Fauci
It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.' -- Emma Watson
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. -- Benjamin Haydon
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. -- Albert Einstein
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. -- Ayelet Waldman
The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy. -- Swami Prabhavananda
Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment. -- Robert Genn
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss. -- Bill Crawford
When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage. -- James Thurber
The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality. -- Theodor Adorno
Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. -- Karl Rahner
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country." -- Simon Le Bon
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. -- Donald Woods Winnicott
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. -- Hugh Prather
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. -- Eknath Easwaran
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked. -- J. K. Rowling
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. -- Marilynne Robinson
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. -- James L. Brooks
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy. -- Charles Stanley
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. -- Marya Mannes
As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!" -- Rick Warren
It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy. -- William Raspberry
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. -- Carl Jung
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence. -- Vanna Bonta
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad. -- Daniel Goleman
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present. -- Francis Harold Cook
As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom. -- Cynthia Heald
You cannot be escorted by the belief of inadequacy and get to the destination of excellence. Go along with "a can do spirit" because that is the only companion! -- Israelmore Ayivor
trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race. -- Ann Landers
I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me. -- David Sedaris
For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame... -- Susan Meiselas
Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images? -- Georges Didi-Huberman
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught -- John Maynard Keynes
One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble. -- Anthony S. Fauci
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that's on a good day. -- Robert De Niro
Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance. -- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God. -- Austin Farrer
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy. -- Jean Helion

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