Quotes about Risk

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!

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.

The ski bum trades security for face shots, the future for the moment. Considering how hollow the promise of a corporate career has become, who can say the ski bum is not the wiser investor in his or her youth?

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.