Day 15 - "What Critics Don't Understand" - Morning Light Devotional
Below is a great quote to reflect upon when dealing with critics who are not “in the arena” but only standing on the sidelines, talking and not doing. Even Jesus “...Learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” (Hebrews 5:8)
Critics, like sports fans, have the luxury of risking nothing while finding fault with those who risk it all, everyday.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer on deeds could have done 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 or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship in a Republic,” Speech at Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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