“Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.”
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“You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.”
“He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.”
“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
“There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.”
“Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?”
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.”
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.”
“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
“We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.”
“I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”
“The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.”
“Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”
“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”
“Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.”