Criticism!

A friend's post got me to look up this quote.

“Fear of criticism kills spontaneity; it prevents men from showing themselves and expressing themselves freely, as they are.  Much courage is needed to paint a picture, to write a book, to erect a building designed along new architectural lines, or to formulate an independent opinion or an original idea.

Any new concept, any creation, falls foul of a host of critics.  Those who criticize the most are the ones who create nothing.”

Paul Tournier, Guilt and Grace (New York, 1962), page 98.

All I can add to that is to say "How true!"   If we are not careful, we allow critics who often know nothing of us or what we are doing, to silence or stop the good that would be done!  Take courage!