2007-10-16 08:59:49 · 26 answers · asked by s.samuel55 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The greatest failures in life are those from which lessons aren't learned. For those will perpetuate similar failures over and over again!
2007-10-16 09:09:05 · answer #1 · answered by I, Sapient 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not certain I agree. We all have different morals and beliefs and at times our morals will fail given certain situation. It’s not the end of the world. It would be easy to look at failures as a whole, moral or not and trace them all back to a moral failure, but I think that limits the big picture. I think the greatest failures in life springs opportunity for personal growth. The greatest failure there is comes from not learning from our mistakes and being doomed to repeat them. War is a perfect example most of us have no moral conflicts when it comes to War, but because we haven’t learned from our past we tend to end right back up one.
2007-10-16 09:09:25 · answer #2 · answered by Twigits 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think so, because it's not fair to say that the immoral are failures, because we all don't start out with the same material and choices. the greatest failure in life is not to accept or give grace. You have to accept and forgive yourself before you can grow morally out of what you have been raised to do. Once you know you are saved, then you are free, and can live morally. It's faith, not works. If there is no God or meaning, then morals mean jack-diddly and failure is relative to you and what you want to achieve, so assuming there is a God....
This part is good to read no matter what you believe, bc it helps against unfairly judging yourself and others for moral lapses:
The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. Human beings judge each other by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God’s eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend. It is well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing and then with the power say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on what he is given at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man’s psychological make-up is probably due to his body. When his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or worst out of his material will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then see, for the first time, everyone as he really was. There will be surprises. CS Lewis
You see, we can't judge ourselves or others on our morality, although we should do our best, because it is wise, and good for us and others. It's about the heart and faith (Romans 9:30) The greatest failure is having a heart that is too closed and prideful to seek the truth.
My favorite answer so far is caveman's. Pride leads to just about everything that blows.
2007-10-16 09:07:52 · answer #3 · answered by Mrs. Eric Cartman 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually I believe that the biggest problem is pride. Pride leads to moral failure, you know, often by way of rejection of authority. Pride also leads to a failure to adhere to sound doctrine.
Now, within the definition of "Moral failure" are we including such things as criticizing the sinner for his sin?
2007-10-16 09:29:21 · answer #4 · answered by Caveman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no. the greatest failure in life is to fail to make any impact on the world whatsoever. picking up after your dog, or holding a door open for someone are all examples of making an impact. but just drifting through life selfishly is the greatest failure in life.
2007-10-16 09:02:58 · answer #5 · answered by Prove god, then we'll talk. 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
if by moral failure you mean not doing your best to walk your talk, then yes, but there are so many reasons why we recoil from acting on what we know to be true. maybe the greater failure is not being able to forgive others shortcomings when given the opportunity.
2007-10-16 09:03:18 · answer #6 · answered by metanoia 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The greatest failure is the ceasing of action because you're afraid of failure.
2007-10-16 09:03:04 · answer #7 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, the greatest failure in life is likely to be the fault of Microsoft.
2007-10-16 09:01:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
This would of course be based upon what is meant by "moral". I would tend to think that no matter what morals one has, or claims to have, if one does not act toward one's fellow human beings with compassion and respect then all the "morals" in the world are meaningless.
2007-10-16 09:03:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I do not. The greatest failure in life is heart failure. Or lung failure.
2007-10-16 09:02:25 · answer #10 · answered by Peter D 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋