Quotes About Risk

We'll never see God part the Jordan River if our feet are firmly planted on dry ground. But if we step into the river, God will part it.

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.

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.

When did we start believing that God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

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.

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.

test by getting out of a boat in the middle of the Sea of Galilee when Jesus uttered one of the craziest commands in Scripture: "Come." Peter risked far more than wet feet. The

coined and collected over the years. Faith is climbing out on a limb, cutting it off, and watching the tree fall down. If doubt is putting your circumstances between you and God, faith is putting God between you and your circumstances. Faith is unlearning your fears until all that's left is the fear of God. Faith is the willingness to look foolish. And I've already mentioned it, but it's worth repeating: faith is taking the first step before God reveals the second step.

His willingness to look foolish resulted in epic miracles.

When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Si no sales de la barca, nunca vas a caminar sobre el agua.

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.

Jesus didn't die on the cross to keep us safe. Jesus died to make us dangerous.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

you can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

No puedes edificar la reputación de Dios si no estás dispuesto a arriesgar la tuya.

Minimum risk equals minimum satisfaction.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The defining moments will double as the scariest decisions.