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then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
— Jeremiah 42:16
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.
— Abraham Lincoln
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
— Martin Luther
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
— Psalm 64:1
There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is in the company of the righteous.
— Psalm 14:5
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
— Proverbs 1:27
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God.
— John Calvin
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
— NT Wright
There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.
— Charles Finney
Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say: 'Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say: 'Would it were morning!'" I have not found a place which sets forth the misery of a bad conscience so clearly, with such fitting and appropriate words and expressions.
— Martin Luther
The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.
— Isaiah 8:13