God is great and so he planted seeds of greatness in you. God is good so there is goodness in you. God is love so there is love within you.

Obstacles are meant to be overcome. Fear is meant to be conquered. Success is meant to be achieved. They

Jesus said Fear not over 300 times because He knew our focus needed to be on God's love, not our fear. God's perfect love casts out fear. So

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means 'inspired' or 'filled with the divine.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings who never meddle.

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

They believed that in watching these burnings and dissections, they had an actual window into hell itself.

The events of the past year had drawn him out into lonelier and more dangerous theological territory, but there was a newfound freedom and a faith that bloomed in this situation. He knew that God was with him in a way he couldn't have known before, so his fear of Rome, if ever any had existed, had vanished.

But making the greater mistake of being paralyzed to inaction—for fear of making a mistake—for fear of stepping outside some false religious boundary, is something else. For that kind of inaction reveals what we really think of God, that he is a legalistic moral policeman waiting for us to slip up just so that he can make his arrest quota for the day.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Reflection makes men cowards.