Quotes about Risk

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

God told us to go. He didn't promise that we would come back." Butros

Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.