Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.
An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
I don’t fear anyone. We don’t come to play in this sport.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
When you’re fearful, you stumble.
I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
I’m a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife – sometimes.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash.
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn’t a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Those who own much have much to fear.
There’s fear or faith. If you’re living by fear, then you’re always looking for security. If you’re living by faith, then you’re always looking for freedom.
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.
Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
The brutal truth is, we’re scarcely ‘educating’ children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we’re doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a ‘screaming hysterically’ kind of fear but a silently lurking one.
Don’t fear change – embrace it.
Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
