Quotes About Self-protecting

Love is self-giving; fear is self-protecting.3 Love moves toward others; fear shrinks away from them. But the counselor must remember (and persuade the counselee that) love is the stronger since it is able to "cast out" fear. In dealing with fear, nothing else possesses the same expulsive power.

As time goes on and the horrors pile up, the mind seems to secrete a sort of self-protecting ignorance which needs a harder and harder shock to pierce it, just as the body will become immunised to a drug and require bigger and bigger doses.

We are beginning to see that religion is not a spontaneous, self-protecting plant; that faith is not safely and wisely left to its own growth.

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