Quotes about Daring

Those who walk the full and entire journey are considered "called" or "chosen" in the Bible, perhaps "fated" or "destined" in world mythology and literature, but always they are the ones who have heard some deep invitation to "something more," and set out to find it by both grace and daring.

Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It's a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn't radical. It's normal. It's time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It's time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

Courage," he said, "is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

Do I really dare to let God be to me all that He says He will be?

The most remarkable observation one can make about this interface of exilic circumstance and scriptural resource is this: Exile did not lead Jews in the Old Testament to abandon faith or to settle for abdicating despair, nor to retreat to privatistic religion. On the contrary, exile evoked the most brilliant literature and the most daring theological articulation in the Old Testament.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Courage as an element of faith is the daring self-affirmation of one's own being in spite of the powers of "non-being" which are the heritage of everything finite.