"But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through."
- Francis Chan
"When we work, we work. When we pray, God works."
- James Hudson Taylor
"If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God."
- D.L. Moody
"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody."
- D.L. Moody
"The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. ... spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now."
- Priscilla Shirer
"I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it."
- Elisabeth Elliot
"If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large."
- William Wilberforce
"God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement."
- Margaret Feinberg
"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things.
Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."
- C. S. Lewis
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
- Helen Keller
"Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief."
- C. S. Lewis
"They who navigate little streams and shallow creeks, know but little of the God of tempests; but they who "Do business in great waters," these see his "wonders in the deep."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle that only the Spirit of God can work in you. Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in your Master's steps, for He has made this rough journey before you."
- Alistair Begg
"6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest."
- Joshua chapter 1
"23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches."
- Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 11