Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.

People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.

In Scripture we see example after example of God coming alongside people who felt weak and inadequate—who felt the absence of the strength needed for the assignment they'd been given—and calling them to be strong. In fact, there are more than thirty occasions in the Bible where God commands someone to be strong.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Our fears have typically already decided that the worst is about to happen. Catastrophe is upon us and there is no hope. But "Don't be afraid," when spoken by the Lord, is a promise that the end will be different from what we predict.

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.

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