Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard Adams

Humility is doing double duty here: it lowers the temperature of moral judgment while raising the stakes of moral effort. Adams opens with a blunt, leveling admission of failure - "we are all human" - that functions like a pastoral equalizer. No one gets to stand outside the indictment, including the speaker. For a clergyman, that matters: credibility in moral exhortation often depends on refusing the posture of the spotless judge. The phrase "fall short" also quietly borrows the cadence of Christian language about sin and imperfection without spelling it out, keeping the door open for believers and the merely weary alike.

Then comes the pivot: not absolution, but insistence. "We must never stop trying" turns a diagnosis into a discipline. The subtext is that moral life is not a one-time conversion moment or a scoreboard of purity; it is sustained practice. The line resists two modern temptations at once: despair (the sense that failure proves you are finished) and complacency (the idea that being "only human" excuses you from effort). By pairing weakness with obligation, Adams offers a theology of persistence that feels as much like mental health counsel as sermon: you can be flawed and still responsible.

Contextually, this sounds like the kind of sentence built for a pulpit after disappointment - a personal lapse, a community scandal, a season of social conflict. Its intent is corrective without being punitive: keep striving, but do it from a stance of shared limitation. The genius is its moral pressure wrapped in gentleness.