The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
— Tullian Tchividjian
The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
— Ann Voskamp
Fear was a suffocating companion that constantly tried to smother his faith.