Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that’s paying you a fortune but it’s not what’s in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

Tesh frames “risk” not as a single dramatic leap but as a spectrum of everyday decisions that threaten comfort, security, or social approval. By pairing public vulnerability (“being honest about your faith”) with practical upheaval (moving, leaving a lucrative job), he suggests that the common denominator is alignment with one’s inner convictions rather than external rewards. The quote also diagnoses why such choices feel daunting: fear is less about the objective danger than about uncertainty and the loss of status, income, or belonging. Implicitly, it argues that growth and integrity require tolerating that fear—treating risk as a necessary cost of living authentically.