Quotes about Risk

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith, simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith, we move mountains of opposition or we're stopped by molehills.

At the end of the day, in spite of the risks, do life with your people. They need to see you struggle and process your day-to-day walk with Christ. They need to see you desire community, and you need to see transformation take place among your community.

Jesus did not send us to declare the gospel only where people are responsive or where our witness is welcome. He did not expect us to be on mission to disciple peoples only where there is no danger or risk involved. He was unequivocal in His mandate to disciple the nations (peoples)—all of them!

To play it safe is the most risky decision we could make. To risk is the safest decision we can make with God. No matter the short-term implications, we must obey God with reckless abandon.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

You know you're a skydiver when your friends look at the sky and say, "look at all those clouds," and you say, "look at all those holes!"

Most sports only need one ball. Mine takes both. Skydive!