Quotes about Fear

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as "bigger" (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.

When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.

Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.

We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.