Quotes by Fear Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. Bill Russell basketballfearletting-go Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. Bill W. selffearperfect The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger. Billy Graham greatest-fearstrangerfear As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay! Billy Joel atheistevilfear And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet. Billy Sunday christianfearthinking Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal hatefearmen There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him. Blaise Pascal fearcharacterbelieve Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days. Bob Barr these-daysfearpeople It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be. Bob Dylan fearsweetlife I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. Bob Dylan acceptancefearpeople I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return. Bob Woodward phonesfearnight But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? Boris Pasternak sorceryfearhot And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal. Brad Meltzer goalfearnumbers When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future. Brad Meltzer fearsleeppast When you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain. Brad Meltzer painrealfear How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Bram Stoker feardreamsweet I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me! Bram Stoker fearseathinking Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. Bram Stoker feardreamheart The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed. Brennan Manning selffearlying Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba. Brennan Manning brotherfearjesus«1011121314151617181920»
