It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

If we are to live,' Rake went on, 'we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

"Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it." (p152)

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Only faith can keep what hope promises.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.