Quotes about Fear

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Fear will always step in the moment we choose to let faith go.

Guilt brings condemnation and fear brings torment.

Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.

Prophetic ministers and believers in Christ's return are continually mocked as doom and gloom prognosticators whose messages only spread fear and anxiety.

Fear will paralyze your confidence in God's willingness to be your provider and answer your prayers.

Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence (Proverbs 3:25, 26).

Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it's not meant to be, isn't a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It's actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust.