Scripture assumes that we will be afraid and anxious sometimes. What is important is where we turn, or to whom we turn when we are afraid. The God who calls you to trust in Him when you are afraid will spend a great deal of time showing you that you can trust Him.

Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.

Selfcontrol is the skill of saying "no" to sinful desires, even when it hurts.

To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of aloneness.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The airy phantoms that flit before the distempered imaginations of some of its adversaries would quickly give place to the more substantial forms of dangers, real, certain, and formidable.

I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

I don't really like talking too much about myself, but I have this feeling that it's all clicking for me. It's all coming together.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.