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For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
— Luke 1:44
What we require is obedience—the strength to stand and the willingness to leap, and the sense to know when to do which. Which is exactly what we get when an accurate memory of God's ways is combined with a lively hope in his promises.
— Eugene Peterson
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
— John Calvin
When you're in a burning building looking out of the twentieth story window down to the street and all you see is clouds of billowing smoke, you have to choose to believe the firemen below who tell you they have a safety net and it's safe to jump. When the clouds of smoke disappear, you don't have to believe any more: you see it. In this world, it's a leap in the dark; in the next world, it's a leap in the light.
— Peter Kreeft
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
— Luke 1:41
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
— Hildegard of Bingen
It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a leap from here to there, leaving out the in-between... What is usually overlooked, however, is that Kierkegaard said nothing about a safe landing; there was only the leap, and no guarantee of solid ground beyond it.
— James Carse
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
— Joseph Campbell
Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
— Job 39:20
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.
— Luke 6:23
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
— Norman Vincent Peale
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
— Malachi 4:2