Quotes about Fear

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

God's star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man's synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.

No situation is beyond God's control. Over my wife's desk are these words: "Fear not the future; God is already there.

Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

The resurrection of Christ changed the midnight of bereavement into a sunrise of reunion; it changed the midnight of disappointment into a sunrise of joy; it changed the midnight of fear to a sunrise of peace.

Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

We are like a people under [a] sentence of death, waiting for the date to be set. We sense that something is about to happen. We know that things cannot go on as they are. History has reached an impasse. We are now on a collision course. Something is about to give.

New Agers are terrified of their own mortality, and they want to believe that somehow the soul will survive. Of course it will, but not as they imagine.

If the truth scares you, know that it is your guilty conscience reacting to Truth.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.