For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

The line expresses a distinctly Kierkegaardian idea: faith is not assent to what is already secure or demonstrable, but a committed leap amid uncertainty. “Risk” names the existential exposure involved in trusting God or embracing a religious commitment without objective guarantees. On this view, faith is measured not by the comfort of one’s convictions but by the willingness to act and live on the basis of what cannot be conclusively proven. The “greater the risk” clause intensifies the point: the more one must relinquish worldly securities—reputation, rational certainty, even ethical intelligibility—the more the act resembles the paradigmatic “leap” Kierkegaard associates with authentic religious faith.