Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard G. Scott

Discouragement is framed here not as a personal failing but as a shared weather system: it rolls in on everyone. That small, plain "we" does the heavy lifting. Richard G. Scott, speaking as a clergyman, isn’t offering novelty; he’s offering permission. In religious settings, people often arrive carrying private evidence they’re spiritually "behind" - lapses in discipline, doubt, depression, exhaustion. "We all get discouraged" quietly detonates the shame around those states by normalizing them, turning isolation into membership.

The specific intent is pastoral triage. Before a sermon can ask for repentance, persistence, or hope, it has to lower the pulse. Scott’s line functions like a hand on the shoulder: you’re not uniquely broken, you’re human. The economy of the sentence is strategic. No causes, no blame, no fixes. It avoids the usual moral accounting that can make discouragement feel like a verdict. Instead, it treats it as an episode.

The subtext is also about authority, used gently. A leader who says "we" is claiming solidarity without surrendering guidance. It says: I’m in this condition too, so my counsel won’t be theoretical. In a tradition that prizes endurance and faithfulness, that matters; discouragement can look like disloyalty. Scott reclassifies it as part of the path, not a sign you’ve left it.

Contextually, it reads like the opening move of a longer argument: once shame is removed, resilience can be asked for without cruelty.