Quotes about Fear
We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don't fear the shadows it creates.
— Ted Dekker
There's a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It's important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.
— Ted Dekker
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
— John Ortberg
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
— Jonathan Edwards
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
— Samuel Johnson
The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.
— Thomas Cranmer
Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.
— St Bonaventure
When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.
— AW Tozer
A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
— Epicurus
I believe in God. I don't fear man, I fear God.
— Denzel Washington
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
— Ignatius of Loyola