In times of uncertainty, fear can begin to creep in. My prayer is that these quotes will inspire you to keep fear away:
“Faith and fear are opposite poles. If a man has one, he can scarcely have the other. He who has faith in God does not need to dread anything except the weakening of his faith.”
Alexander MacLaren
“Our lives are full of “supposes” – suppose this happens or suppose that happens what could we do, or how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of God’s dwelling place, all these “supposes” will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threats of evil can penetrate the high tower of God.”
Hannah Whitall Smith
“The only known antidote to fear is faith.”
Woodroll Kroll
“Feed your fears and your faith will starve, feed your faith and your fears will starve.”
Max Lucado
“The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.”
John Piper
“How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer’s ear. It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away fear.”
John Newton
“I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Thomas Merton
“If the Lord be with us we have no cause to fear. His eye is above us, his arm over us, his ear open to our prayer – his grace sufficient, his promises unchangeable.”
John Newton
“Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. No one was there.”
English Proverb
“Don’t be afraid of tomorrow. God is already there.”
Katherine Walden
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
Karl Barth
“Do not fear circumstances. They cannot hurt us, if we hold fast to God and use them as the voices and ministries of his will. Trust him about everyone and everything, for all times and all needs.”
Anthony W. Thorold
“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet, distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.”
Robert Murrary M’Cheyne
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell
“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”
Karl Augustus Menninger
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”
James F. Byrnes
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
James Stephens
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
Herman Melville
“Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.”
Zig Ziglar
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
William Allen White
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
Dale Carnegie
“The key to change… is to let go of fear.”
Roseanne Cash
“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”
Babe Ruth
“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”
Japanese Proverb
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
Henry Ford
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
W. Clement Stone
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
Jack Canfield
“To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
Peter McWilliams
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Marcus Aurelius
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
Rosa Parks
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”
Dale Carnegie
“Fear is the enemy of logic.”
Frank Sinatra
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell
“Fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”
Steve Maraboli
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. Remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
Dale Carnegie
“No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Edmund Burke
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
Mark Twain
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
Louis E. Boone
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
Jack Canfield
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”
- Jackson Browne
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
Andre Gide
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
Lady Bird Johnson
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Shirley Maclaine
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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