Somebody once asked Winston Churchill what most prepared him to risk political
suicide by speaking out against Hitler during the years of appeasement in the
mid-1930s, then to lead Great Britain against Nazi Germany. Churchill said it
was the time he had to repeat a grade in elementary school.
"You mean you failed a year in grade school?" He was asked.
“I never failed anything in my life. I was given a second opportunity to get it
right.”
Ortberg, John. If you Want to Walk on Water, you’ve got to Get Out of the Boat..
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001, p. 22,23.
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