76 Quotes About Fear

Seeing that a pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Meet your fears with faith.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

With the power of God within us, we need never fear the powers around us.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

It is better to make a thousand failures than to be too cowardly to ever undertake anything.

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.

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

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Many men affect to despise fear, and in preaching resent any appeal to it; but not to fear when there is occasion is as great a weakness as to fear unduly without reason. God implanted fear in the soul as truly as He implanted hope or courage.

If my attitude be one of fear, not faith, about one who has disappointed me; if I say, "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If there is anything excellent, it is salvation; if there be anything necessary, it is working out salvation; if there be any tool to work with, tis holy fear.

Fear of man is the enemy of the fear of the Lord. The fear of man pushes us to perform for man's approval rather than according to God's directives.

Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath not suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it lawful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake.

Never turn your back on your fears.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Fear God and you'll have nothing else to fear.

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, in a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.

To win the war against fear, we must know the true God as He is revealed in the Bible. He works to give us lasting peace. He receives joy, not from condemning us but in rescuing us from the devil. Yes, the Lord will bring conviction to our hearts concerning sin, but it is so He can deliver us from sin's power and consequences. In its place, the Lord works to establish healing, forgiveness and peace.

Fear is faithlessness.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The only known antidote to fear is faith.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Imagination frames events unknown, in wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates.

Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

It is good to remind ourselves that the will of God comes from the heart of God and that we need not be afraid.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Fear is the response of the human heart when its one thing is threatened.

Are you facing fear today? Perhaps you are afraid of losing your job, of developing cancer or being left by your spouse. At times all of us experience fear. But don't allow fear to keep you from being used by God. He has kept you thus far; trust Him for the rest of the way.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not.

Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.

Hope is like the cork to the net, which keeps the soul from sinking in despair; and fear, like the lead to the net, which keeps it from floating in presumption.

The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

It is not my aim to introduce doubts and fears into your mind; no, but I do hope self-examination may help to drive them away. It is not security, but false security, which we would kill; not confidence, but false confidence, which we would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy.