Quotes about Risk
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection.
— Tony Robbins
When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
— Bob Goff
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
— Leo Buscaglia
The only mistake is not to risk making one.
— Max Lucado
The fear-filled cannot love deeply. Love is risky. They cannot give to the poor. Benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams sputter and fall from the sky? The worship of safety emasculates greatness. No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear.
— Max Lucado
At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear.
— Max Lucado
The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans. Paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.
— Max Lucado
When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life. Can the safety lover do anything great? Can the risk-averse accomplish noble deeds? For God? For others? No. The fear-filled cannot love deeply. Love is risky. They cannot give to the poor. Benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams sputter and fall from the sky? The worship of safety emasculates greatness. No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear. His
— Max Lucado
If I'm not saved by my works, then why work? If I'm not saved by the law, then why keep the law? If I'm not saved by what I do, then why do anything?" You've got to admit, grace is risky. There is the chance that people will take it to an extreme. There is the possibility that people will abuse God's goodness.
— Max Lucado
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
— Maya Angelou
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
— Maya Angelou