Quotes about Risk
If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.
— Mark Batterson
You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it'll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take. But if your dream doesn't scare you, it's too small.
— Mark Batterson
When did we start believing that God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?
— Mark Batterson
Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.
— Mark Batterson
Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.
— Mark Batterson
The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.
— Mark Batterson
Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.
— Mark Batterson
His willingness to look foolish resulted in epic miracles.
— Mark Batterson
When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.
— Mark Batterson
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
— Mark Batterson
At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had. It's the what if dreams that we never act upon that turn into if only regrets.
— Mark Batterson
Jesus didn't die on the cross to keep us safe. Jesus died to make us dangerous.
— Mark Batterson