We are the people of the ultimate Quest — we are on a wild, and sometimes dangerous, adventure to save the world. - Alan Hirsch

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

What we find in our heroes and martyrs is a living witness to the fact that the true life of faith can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if one takes it on bravely and gallantly, as something of a grand adventure in which we set out into an unknown country to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.