pat loughery

I believe that God speaks through cultural reference points. So I try to keep mye eyes open to see signs of the sacred in the marketplace of thoughts.

For some reason, I’ve seen this quote four times in the last week, and I’m taking it as God trying to show me something. As I read this, and as I prepare for a leadership team meeting tomorrow night, I’m beginning to understand why.

It also helps me to explain why I feel proud to be a church planter, and the reason that I blog. See for yourself what you can find in it:

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at 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 or defeat.”

– THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(Paris Sorbonne,1910)