Alan Hirsch: Risk

Alan Hirsch is South African missionary. Explore interesting quotes on risk.

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“The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.”

Alan Hirsch

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 157

Soul

“Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.”

Alan Hirsch

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 141

Children , Sense

“We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.”

Alan Hirsch

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 23

Failure , Chance

“Becoming an adventurous, liminal church means getting over risk aversion. Often the difference between a successful person (or organization) and a failure lies not in having better abilities or ideas, but in having the courage to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.”

Alan Hirsch

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 48

Idea , Failure , Courage , Success

“If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.”

Alan Hirsch

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 151

Loss

“If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.”

Alan Hirsch

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 136

Change , Loss