Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago (April 10, 1899)
Paul mentions something along these lines:
Philippians 3:12-14
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
The Christian experience is very similar to Teddy’s quote. We can’t live on yesterday’s mistakes or successes. There has to be a constant reminder that the mountains of today must be claimed and conquered. An opportunity has been presented to us today that needs to be reached in spite of our own haunting deficits.
Give it some thought; then do something.
Gary