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Quotes About Fear

I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg
~ Lynsay Sands
See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.
~ Lynsay Sands
The only way our faith will ever strengthen is for us to use it. We need to apply thought and prayer to our decisions and then trust God for the outcome. We need to set our sights on growing in faith, not shrinking back for fear of failure.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
A FATHER'S GREATEST FEAR is usually that he won't be able to provide for his family. A mom's greatest fear is typically that something will happen to one of her children. Fear is a funny thing. It sometimes provides healthy caution, but more times than not it seems to produce undue stress and anxiety regarding things over which we have little to no control.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
What's a brokenhearted person to do? We must praise God, seek God, look to God, call to God, experience God, fear God, learn from God, honor God, draw near to God, and take refuge in God. This
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It's not about you becoming anything. Your soul was made to simply be with Me. And the more you are with Me, the more you will stop fearing what the world might take from you. With Me you are free to be you. The real you. The you honesty called to at the very beginning of this journey. The you whose core is in alignment with My truth. The you who doesn't fear imperfections or rejections, because grace has covered those in the loveliest of ways.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Rejection steals the security of all we thought was beautiful and stable and leaves us scared and fragile and more vulnerable than ever.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
You are my fortress. A fortress is a strong, high place. It's the place You lift me so fear can no longer have access to me. Fear can't catch what it can no longer reach. What a comfort this is. You lift me high like this when I lift my soul in worship of Your holy name.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It's not about you becoming anything. Your soul was made to simply be with Me. And the more you are with Me, the more you will stop fearing what the world might take from you. With Me you are free to be you. The real you. The you honesty called to at the very beginning of this journey. The you whose core is in alignment with My truth. The you who doesn't fear imperfections or rejections, because grace has covered those in the loveliest of ways." Overcoming
~ Lysa TerKeurst
There is no perfect decision—only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us. Let's state it
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The enemy loves to take our rejection and twist it into a raw, irrational fear that God really doesn't have a good plan for us.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
What's a brokenhearted person to do? We must praise God, seek God, look to God, call to God, experience God, fear God, learn from God, honor God, draw near to God, and take refuge in God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Because rejection is an abstract word that doesn't have an image attached to it, I
~ Lysa TerKeurst
As long as I suspect that honesty's intention is to expose me and hurt me, it will always feel like a dangerous thing.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
God gave us emotions. Emotions allow us to feel as we experience life. Because we feel, we connect. We share laughter and know the gift of empathy. Our emotions are what enable us to drink deeply from love and treasure it. And yes, we also experience difficult emotions such as sadness, fear, shame, and anger. But might these be important as well?
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Fear isn't something you can sweep up into a pile and discard. It isn't physical. It hovers and haunts us in the spiritual realm. It attacks us in the unseen.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Fear makes the gap between where I am and trusting God seem an impossible chasm.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed, for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened. (vv. 49
~ Lysa TerKeurst
What did they do in the midst of this confusion? They cried out in fear instead of calling out to their Lord in faith. They were terrified. Why? Let's look at that word terrified as it is used in these scriptures. It's tarasso, which means "to set in motion what needs to remain still." Can
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I remind fear that I will not entertain his whispered lies. His lies tell me I'll always be alone, and yet Your truth assures me I'm never alone. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. This isn't dependent on a person. It's a security I have in You.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
When people see us, do they see the compassion of their Creator? If so, I guarantee when the enemy sees us he shakes with fear. He isn't scared of the judgmental soul shellacked with a fake sense of perfection. But the compassionate soul who has hurt deeply and come out loving? Yes, she is one of the superstars of God's grand story, and the one you want near you in the battles of life.
~ Lysa TerKeurst