The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it." —Charles Spurgeon

Satan has obvious motives for fueling our denial of eternal punishment: He wants unbelievers to reject Christ without fear; he wants Christians to be unmotivated to share Christ; and he wants God to receive less glory for the radical nature of Christ's redemptive work.

Montaigne said something that rings true for many of us: "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

More often than not religious rites are performed out of fear or superstition. And they are seldom questioned or examined.

Thirteen centuries ago, Europe was able to stop the theocratic Islamic tidal wave because it had a faith to defend. The value-less culture of today will not be able to withstand the attack.

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas.

There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

Here's one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment.