Quotes About Fear

We cannot use the political spirit in one situation and think we can be free from it in another. The political spirit uses the fear of man and manipulation to get people to support a particular way of thinking.

But it is illegitimate to allow fear to keep us from pursuing a deeper experience with God! Embracing such fear causes a failure to the other extreme, which is culturally more acceptable, but significantly worse in eternity.

Fear attacks the foundation of our relationship with God—our faith. Fear is faith in the devil; it is also called unbelief.

At minimum, we should at least attempt to do what Jesus did—including raise the dead. The fear of looking foolish to others has kept many from responding to this command of the Lord. In addition, we might never do this assignment well. But that does not give me the right to change the assignment to what I do well, and then call that my ministry.

Fear is the guard dog that is protecting the fortress of spiritual prosperity. When the dog starts barking, we know that the treasure he is guarding is near.

My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

Now guilt, fear, and shame controlled Adam and Eve's relationship. The guilt of their sin against a holy God, the fear of rejection, and the shame of how they saw themselves were now the framework for their responses to each other.

Janelle woke up, terrified. This wasn't that unusual. Janelle was terrified over lots of stuff...spiders, hamsters, people. As a little girl, she once called 911 to report that her shadow was following her.

There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.

From time to time, I meet someone who will say something like, "I am not afraid of dying." I don't buy it. Everyone is afraid of dying. It's part of the instinct that helps us survive as a species. It's a crucial feature of human evolution. It's also, I strongly suspect, a crucial reason why so many people have trouble believing evolution is true. Life can be ironic like that.

The mere thought that the fighting will soon end fills Patton with dread. "Peace is going to be hell on me," he writes to his wife, Beatrice.

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

LEGEND HERE The initial euphoria of being named commander in chief has long since passed for Washington, replaced by the fear that he has made a very big mistake. "I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulders and entered the ranks," he has written to a friend.

Fear especially marked him—fear of what he was doing and at the same time fear that nobody would believe him.

diplomacy by "balance of fear.

Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. "You felt it to the point of physical illness," one German officer will later write. "Nothing was authentic except fear." And

but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so.

The real hero," Holmlund heard George S. Patton say just four months ago, "is the man who fights even though he's scared.

Screaming Meemie" rockets screech into the darkness, a deadly sound that American soldiers everywhere find unnerving.

If I am killed I can die but once," he is fond of saying, "but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

Night is a time of terror. Worries and anxieties are unleashed by the darkness, when the distractions and the busyness of the day can no longer keep them at bay." Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly

It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the 'fear of They,' and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and the weak-kneed congressmen, Patton wrote in his journal. 'But so it is.