Quotes about Risk

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world." a

Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

A mistake would have been fatal. -Sherlock Holmes-

he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.

Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life. And

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

Those who defer obedience till every shadow of uncertainty disappears and there remains no risk of failure or defeat, will never obey at all.