Dallas WillardThe cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.
About This Quote
The line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a reference to the idea of not cutting one’s own throat because you’re sitting on it. That means that if you don’t cut yourself down, you can’t get up and move around because you’re attached to the side.
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