Quotes about Fear

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

If I am seeking everything that can delight my senses, and regale my appetites; spending my time and fortune in pleasures, in diversions, and worldly enjoyments; a stranger to watchings, fastings, prayers, and mortification; how can it be said that I am working out my salvation with fear and trembling?

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

Faith doesn't mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God's goodness is greater.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just.

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.