In your love of life… I see the ordinary fear of death.
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
—Plato
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
— Abraham Maslow
What you fear… will not happen because of your faith, but because of your fear.
No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I have nothing to fear;
I cannot be condemned.”
— Charles Spurgeon
You are enlisted under the banner of Christ – ‘Fear not, though the world, and the flesh, and the devil are set in array against you’.
—William Wilberforce
In order to live a good life you have to place truth above everything else, so that you don’t fear speaking the truth even if the truth harms you as you speak.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Understanding the love of Jesus lifts the mind above all fear.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Lead your life so that you neither fear death nor desire it.
—Leo Tolstoy
The fool fears and retreats from evil, because he does not know how to overcome it, and the wise man trusts himself, fights evil and defeats it.
—Taras Shevchenko
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear.
—John Milton
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
—Henry Ford
You have nothing to fear from the machinations of those people who belong to a deceitful and vain world. They can’t reach a beautiful bird soaring in the sky. What’s her name? Is it truth? Love? Eternity? Yes, eternity. The bustling world can’t keep up with eternity, it better see it doesn’t lose itself!
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
There is never a fear that has not a corresponding Fear not.
—Amy Carmichael
Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
—Laozi
We pray with boldness.
Not the boldness of the rebel who carries a brazen front in the presence of his offended king, but the boldness of the child who fears because he loves, and loves because he fears.
— Charles Spurgeon
Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.
—Sun Tzu
If you’re afraid of something, know that the cause of your fear is not outside you but within you.
—Leo Tolstoy
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
—Aristotle