Risks

I'm praying a lot about taking a really big risk. I've been reading over some of my old journals and found a few relevant quotes:

• Generally speaking, you are probably never going to be more than 80% certain. Waiting for greater certainty may cause you to miss an opportunity. - Andy Stanley

• I think our greatest regrets will be the God-ordained risks we didn't take. We won't regret sinking. We will regret sitting. - Mark Batterson

• Hell begins the day God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake some day and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return. - Annie Dillard