Quotes about Dread

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.

God is powerful. He could be my dread champion, my rear guard, the one who fights for me. But I feel like I'm fighting all alone.

Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.

Does anyone else find this shit completely terrifying

There is another telling aspect to a show of naval might. This is its temerity. A fleet carries with it the audacity of its enterprise. The stay-at-home foe is stricken by its sudden apparition. The enemy beholding a navy advancing upon him out of the aether is struck with dread, as Priam himself when Achilles' black ships beached upon the plain of Troy.

Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

Death was originally proposed as an object of dread, that sin might not be committed; now it must be undergone that sin may not be committed, or, if committed, be remitted, and the award of righteousness bestowed on him whose victory has earned it.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

The only thing we have to fear is the FEAR itself.

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.

If I'd been older I would've asked what it was right away, but I didn't because I wanted to postpone the moment when I would know what it was. In stories I'd read, I'd come across the words nameless dread. They'd just been words then, but now that's exactly what I felt.

Everyone here is dreading the great terror known as winter.