Quotes about Fear
We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
- Mark Batterson
If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
- Mark Batterson
At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had.
- Mark Batterson
Irrational fears only submit to prayer.
- Mark Batterson
You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it'll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take. But if your dream doesn't scare you, it's too small.
- Mark Batterson
Here is my point. The cure for the fear of failure is not success. It's failure. The cure for the fear of rejection is not acceptance. It's rejection. You've got to be exposed to small quantities of whatever you're afraid of. That's how you build up immunity.
- Mark Batterson
One reason we turn a deaf ear to God is because we're afraid of what He's going to say, but that's because we don't know His heart toward us. You want to hear what He has to say. Trust me. The Song of Songs says, 'His mouth is sweetness itself.
- Mark Batterson
At the end of our lives, our greatest regrets will be the God-ordained opportunities we left on the table, the God-given passions we didn't pursue, and the God-sized dreams we didn't go after because we let fear dictate our decisions.
- Mark Batterson
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
- Mark Batterson
You can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.
- Mark Batterson
Facing your fears is the beginning of the battle.
- Mark Batterson
In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
- Mark Batterson