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Riches and strength lift up the heart, but the fear of the Lord is better than both. There is no loss in the fear of the Lord, and with it there is no need to seek for help. Sirach 40:26

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)_A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful_ [1756]

But now, this is what the LORD says-- he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour.
Isa. 43:1-3 NIV

What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy yoke of the world, and to bear the light burden of Jesus Christ? Do we fear to be too happy, too much delivered from ourselves, from the caprices of our pride, the violence of our passions, and the tyranny of this deceitful world? ... FranÁois FÈnelon (1651-1715)

There is no greater recipe for disaster than a persistent refusal to face unwelcome facts. Roy Jenkins.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. - John Lennon, 1940 - 1980

Serve the Lord with fear, and exult with trembling" (Ps.2:11). Let somebody bring this into harmony for me: exult and fear! My son Hans can do it in relation to me, but I can't do it in relation to God. When I'm writing or doing something else, my Hans sings a little tune for me. If he becomes too noisy and I rebuke him a little for it, he continues to sing but does it more privately and with a certain awe and uneasiness. This is what God wishes: that we be always cheerful, but with reverence.-- Luther's Tabletalk (from No. 148)

As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion. Niccolo Machiavelli

And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. --Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) _The Prince_ [1513], Chapter 8

Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?' - Alexander MacLaren

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.... John Owen (1616-1683)

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

So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The only known cure for fear is faith.--Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875-1939)

To one who is afraid, everything rustles. -- Sophocles

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.... Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), (1835-1910)