"Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective."

"Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries."

"Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer."

"Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired."

"Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures."

"Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two."

"When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap."

"In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary."

"The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk."

"But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees."

"There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life."

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

"This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely."

"Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change."

"It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures."

"If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples."

"The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time."

"Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel."

"Becoming an adventurous, liminal church means getting over risk aversion. Often the difference between a successful person (or organization) and a failure lies not in having better abilities or ideas, but in having the courage to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act."

"The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency."

"The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable."

"Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves."

"Because of this global uncertainty, the visionary and the adventurous amongst us will get to shape the future of the twenty-first century—the church included."

"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."

"Indeed, we believe that twenty-first century Christians are yearning to see the adventure put back into Christianity, into the relationship with the living God — where it rightly belongs."

"We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point."

"But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify."

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

"Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance."

"I pretty much don't care what the papers say about me."

"Sol pounds the headlines with the repetition - and delicacy of a sledgehammer."

"as remote as the rings of Saturn."

"I'm not afraid of growing old. I'm not sure that I'll ever be an old man. Maybe in the chronological sense - but that's all."

"You take a change... Calculate the odds, research the international market properly, establish the Southern Africans' taste, style, appetite and enjoyment, aim at giving them a good time at the best quality that they can afford - then go for it!"

"Good tourism will follow good hotels - and what could be better for our country?"

"A man with his stubby million-rand finger perennially prodding the public's pulse, his eyes constantly roving the horizons of the future, Kerzner has the power of a Prometheus unbound."

"Sol's currency is dedication, enthusiasm and commitment."

"my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects."

"There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience."

"Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's “King Solomon's Ring,” I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject."

"The harder I practice, the luckier I get."

"An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage."

"We tend to overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term."

"Training, as practiced in much of corporate America, is an astonishing waste of resources."

"Sometimes it's just not practical to go through the effort of creating a new solution when an existing solution will do the job almost as well."

"Often the true causes of our discomfort are so integral to our environment that we fail to recognize them."

"As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them."