Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.

We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith, simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith, we move mountains of opposition or we’re stopped by molehills.

Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of “leap and the net will appear.” Faith is your best buddy when you’re scared shitless.

That's what faith is about — living with paradox.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

We can create a fearless life by living daily out of our comfort zone, and in the deliciousness of uncertainty.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

one thing is certain, to get there we will have to take risks. We will have to assume them. And to assume risks requires faith If you cannot cross the visible to what you cannot yet see, you will be stuck in doubts, pessimism, and defeatism. Faith arms you to believe and to assume risks.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Life is incredibly contingent and unexpected.

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.