Quotes about Fear

The currency of the gospel of religion is fear and imposition. The currency of the gospel of Christ is love and invitation.

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.

Though she never moved, she was more alive than I. In the light of her beauty and strength, I realized what I had lost. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.

The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

But don't imagine that always brave translates to never afraid.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.