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Quotes About Risk

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.
~ Craig Groeschel
If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world
~ Mick Foley
Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.
~ Royal Robbins
The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts.
~ Pope Francis
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
~ Ruby Dee
If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.
~ Gary Haugen
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
~ Blaise Pascal
Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.
~ Paul Bowles
If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.
~ Jose Mourinho
If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
~ Blaise Pascal
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
~ Francois Fenelon
Don't insult God with safe living and small thinking.
~ Craig Groeschel
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
~ Bill Hybels
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.
~ Francis Chan
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
~ Albert Scott Crossfield
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
~ Charlie Munger
Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
~ Martin Luther
The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
~ Bob Goff
Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.
~ Johnny Knoxville
You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.
~ Mark Batterson