Quotes about Risk

My experience at Trinity points up one big difference between Islam and Christianity: Islam shuns a critique of the Quran. If you ask the hard questions of the Quran, you risk being branded, and, in some cases, you even risk your life.

They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

Always living in the safe zone of life and never taking chances actually makes one a thief and a robber.

God doesn't want us to be gamblers. He wants us to be investors.

If we are not willing to risk what we have now, we will never find out what we could have.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The crowd, in its uncritical political engagement, is not always discerning about new possibility that comes with risk and often votes in fear for the status quo.

It is the work of the poet to imagine YHWH out beyond old stereotypes and to show us that the God of Israel, at the very moment of risk, is a God of healing, transformative, covenantal fidelity.

The shock of such a partner destabilizes us too much. The risk too great, the discomfort so demanding. We much prefer to settle for a less demanding, less overwhelming meeting. Yet we are haunted by the awareness that only this overwhelming meeting gives life.