Quotes about Risk

When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Some Christians take so few risks it's no wonder folks have a hard time believing in Heaven. Most of us live in such fear of death that it's as if no one really believes in resurrection anymore.

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

He knew that the conference was a trap; he knew also that he was walking into it with nothing for any trappers to gain.

How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?

Michelle shook her head and looked out the window. We both knew what I was asking for. Another disruption. Another gamble. Another step in the direction of something I wanted and she truly didn't. "This is it, Barack," Michelle said. "One last time. But don't expect me to do any campaigning. In fact, you shouldn't even count on my vote.

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?