Quotes about Leap
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When he has to risk everything on his leap, and in the spiritual domain Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold by common sense and leap into what He says... Trust entirely in God, and when He brings you to the venture, see that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis, only one out of a crowd is daring enough to bank his faith in the character of God.
— Charles Swindoll
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
— DH Lawrence
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
— Samuel Johnson
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
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
The most monumental leap we take toward freedom is the leap to our knees—the lordship of Jesus Christ.
— Beth Moore
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
— Francis Collins
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.
— Billy Graham
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
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.
— St. Basil