Quotes about Risk

When the woman came to Saul and saw how distraught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you told me.

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.

If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?

Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.