Quotes about Fear

The way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

Fear is the universal primal response to suffering. And yet beyond doubt it is also the single greatest "enemy of recovery.

Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take

simple availability is the most powerful force we can contribute to help calm the fears of others. Instinctively, I shrink back from people who are in pain.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.

The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.

H. L. Mencken described a Puritan as a person with a haunting fear that someone, somewhere is happy; today, many people would apply the same caricature to evangelicals or fundamentalists.

Strategy 6—Against Your Calling He amplifies fear, worry, and anxiety until they're the loudest voices in your head, causing you to deem the adventure of following God too risky to attempt (Josh. 14:8).

It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.