"Holy Boldness and Daring"

Defining the Indefinable

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

- Martin Luther

One of the great essential qualities of the kind of faith that will attempt great things for God and expect great things from God is holy boldness and daring.

- From Days of Heaven Upon Earth, quoted in Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman

On Failing

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re going about average.

- Leonard Louis Levinson 

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

On the Everyday Daring

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” - Helen Keller

And, of course, the quote that started it all:

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller