Quotes about Fear

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Don't let the fear of what might be rob you of the promise of what can.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. To be known. You can stamp it out. Kill it. Box it up and hem it in. Numb it and close the door. Bury it and nail it shut. Encase it in stone. But eventually, the needs of the heart will tear the door off the hinges, unearth it, and crack the stone. No prison ever built could house it. Those of us who think we can are lying to ourselves. And those next to us. Hope never dies.

I will not let the fear of what might be rob me of the promise of what can.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Being without food, fearful for one's life, the bombings — all made me so appreciative of safety, of liberty.

Dr. Zachary T. Bercovitz told me: "Some people are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds." Asked to specify these diseased thoughts, he replied, "Oh, the usual — fear, guilt, worry, frustration, tension, resentment, gloominess, despondency. In fact, if fear and resentment were eliminated from people's minds I believe our hospital population would be reduced by maybe fifty per cent. Certainly by a lot anyway."