Friday, April 23, 2010

Still relevant after 100 years

It was 100 years ago today that Former President Theodore Roosevelt said the following at the Sorbonne in Paris:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deed could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Go out and dare great things for God!

Pastor Ken

1 comment:

Enthusiastic Episcopalian said...

Amen....

Ken Walters, SR