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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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