(2 Cor. 7:1) Here’s the work of a Christian, cleansing work, and perfecting work in the fear of God, to the end of our lives…. He that is contented with these terms is surely Christ’s as ever was any soul.
—John Flavel
As the fear of God, so the love of God is a principle of restraint from sin to the soul that is upright. This kept back Joseph from sin: How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
—John Flavel
God’s Word is pure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
—R. A. Torrey
God will shortly put a blessed end to all your troubles, cares, and watchings. The time is coming when your heart will be as you would have it, when you will be discharged of these cares, fears & sorrows and never cry out, Oh my hard, proud, vain & earthly heart anymore.
—John Flavel
O may I grow in fear and love in desire to change worlds, in devotedness to Christ and his service.
—William Wilberforce
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
—Thomas Aquinas
A sincere heart dares not sin because of the eye and fear of God that is on him; so you find it in Job 31:1 & 4. He dared not allow his thoughts to sin because he lived under the awe of God’s eye.
—John Flavel
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
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
—Sun Tzu
Love, love to JESUS, casts out fear.
—George Whitefield
Don’t fear ignorance, don’t fear doubt, don’t fear studying, fear one thing: asserting that you know what you don’t.
—Leo Tolstoy
One before whom we could stand in our own merit without fear? He who will may be satisfied with such a God.
—J. Gresham Machen
Fear not man. The LORD OF HOSTS shall be with you; the strength of that GOD who hath called you shall be your refuge.
—George Whitefield
Live so that you neither fear death nor desire it.
—Leo Tolstoy
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear not the face of man, for the LORD, if you go out in his strength, shall be with you, whithersoever you go.
—George Whitefield
I know many of my acquaintance, who love to hear me talk and preach, and who receive me gladly into their houses; but alas! I fear they are self-righteous, and were never yet truly convinced of sin.
—George Whitefield
Christ not only delivers from fears of hell and of wrath, but he gives hopes of heaven, and the enjoyment of God’s love.
—Jonathan Edwards
All fear is killed by faith.
God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour.
—John Locke
Evil people do not look into children’s eyes for fear of being poisoned by their purity.
—Taras Shevchenko
I live, I study. I don’t bow to anyone and I don’t fear anyone but God. It is a great happiness to be a free person.
—Taras Shevchenko