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In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.
- George Eliot
The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.
- Charles Spurgeon
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.
- Kenneth Copeland
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
- Edith Stein
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.
- Stanley Hauerwas
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
- Aldous Huxley
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
- Francis de Sales
the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.
- Sam Storms
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection
- Samuel Johnson
God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.
- Samuel Rutherford
I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.
- Edmund Hillary