Quotes About Fear

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

Islam is the religion of peace. We say that jokingly. That's actually the position of the US government. It's rooted in political correctness and fear and a number of other convoluted things.

Fear first created the gods.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.