Quotes about Risk
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
— John Ortberg
Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.
— John Piper
If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.
— John Piper
Those who defer obedience till every shadow of uncertainty disappears and there remains no risk of failure or defeat, will never obey at all.
— Ellen White
Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
— Rainbow Rowell
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
— Mae West
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
— Florence Nightingale
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" —MATTHEW 14:29
— Sarah Young
Be willing to go out on a limb with Me. If that is where I am leading you, it is the safet place to be... Your desire to live close to Me is at odds with your attempts to minimize risk. You are approaching a crossroads in your journey. In order to follow Me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your tendency to play it safe.
— Sarah Young
Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.
— Robin Sharma