Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn’t work? Would that make you absolutely...

You can’t plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.

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...

you hold onto me?

Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that...

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled....

We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a...

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though.

The drive was strangely calm. Deathly calm. Dark, light …. dark, light …. dark again as we glided under repeat street lighting. Four men sitting silently in four leather seats. Could hear the creaks. The...

To fear is to lack courage; and to lack courage is to forsake your true abilities.By: Wayne Chirisa

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks...

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was...

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

If fear appears at your door you have two options, either you choose to let it in or you choose to grab onto the Lord and the promise of His presence no matter what.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize...

On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are being wiped off the face of their homeland. Well, at least the Chinese...

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying...

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I...

You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest...

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Fear of being poor. It is terrifying.

Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

We are not concerned about the movement. We fear that if go with an 8-2 or 9-1 record, we get sent packing.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day,...

Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears; Fix the future; Flee from fake friends. There is nothing called half-truth. Whatever looks like a lie is a lie!

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ”Know thyself’,’ and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the...

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all…that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make...

It is clear that within the party there are other people who fear the president’s party is losing the battle. They fear that the president’s party will be absolutely nullified by this process of transition,...

They say you fear what you don’t understand. Maybe that’s why every time I’m in South Florida, and I hear someone talking in Spanish, I always shit my pants.

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

… but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.

Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his ‘teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire...

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

If you expose what it is that we’re doing, if you inform your fellow citizens about all the things that we’re doing in the dark, we will destroy you. This is what their spate of...

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

It was a nail-biter, but I can’t show any fear or my team will do the same.

always has our best interests at heart.” It is a voice that can tell us who is friend and who is foe…Which ones to hold at arm’s length…And which ones to keep close. But too...

I don’t think of faith as something you need to have in the world, or in some deity or religion or whatever; I think having faith is about trusting in yourself, and trusting that you’ll...

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy’s notion of his father.

When they find what they don’t like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they’ve ever seen.’ ‘Why?’ asked Isobel. ‘Because . . . because...

Don’t let the bonds of fear and doubt keep you from attempting the impossible. Each attempt will loosen the chains and you’ll eventually break free, thus finding the ‘impossible’ was actually possible all along.