Insistence on security is incompatible with the way of the cross. What daring adventures the incarnation and the atonement were! What a breach of convention and decorum that Almighty God should renounce his privileges in order to take human flesh and bear human sin! Jesus had no security except in his Father. So to follow Jesus is always to accept at least a measure of uncertainty, danger and rejection for his sake.
Risk
Hannah Whitall Smith
It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul.
Praying Medic
Humility allows us to take risks at the expense of our ego.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
Banning Liebscher
Nik successfully crossed the Grand Canyon via tightrope.
God always calls us to do the impossible. He wants to throw us in way over our heads, where He can make us successful according to His definition of success, rather than let us accomplish our own inevitably limited version of the vision.
Ed Stetzer
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.
Moody Adams
Your goals must always be beyond your ability but within your faith.
Bill Johnson
My comfort must never take precedence over doing anything that brings God glory. We must take risks to see God fully glorified.
Corrie Ten Boom
Do you know what hurts so very much? It’s love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out… The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity… out of the realm of the finite…into the realm of infinite possibilities.