I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance...

My biggest fear is to loose my closed ones. And I never want to face it.

Peter opens his eyes and they are tearless and fierce, revealing a glimpse of his true self. Pure animalistic strength. There was never any fear for him to hide.

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good...

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

I’d still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn’t happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the...

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

I think there’s a lot of fear about the earnings, particularly the tech earnings.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest...

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer – through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer – we taste and see how good the Lord...

My New Year’s Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That’s the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how...

There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.

Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.

Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.

She came out of sleep like a thunderclap—waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn’t remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

We are all the fools of time and terror: DaysSteal on us and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

Fear pushes us down; joy picks us up!” (EL)

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

As I’m smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy.”NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME.””WELL, I WAS… FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS.”I don’t know whether he wants me to...

Even brave men, and D’Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

The office is painted with green and red stripes. It’s not painted that way so my mom can experience Christmas 364 more days a year. It represents the stock market, with green symbolizing greed, and...

You can’t live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it’s evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

I fear that important religious sites will become museums for commercial purposes and will no longer be maintained as places of spiritual worship shared by billions across the world,

A fear conquered is a fear harnessed.-Wysteria Morningstar

As long as we acknowledge them, there’s nothing to fear.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper’s aim.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

Sometimes you have to know what you’re willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it’s something we can’t easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen?...

Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendwann genauso der Hybris der Macht zum Opfer, wie die Ohnmächtigen dem Zorn über ihre Machtlosigkeit.

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before...

Everything can change, fluctuate, go into reverse. They strike without much warning, it any at all. It is the curse of the human mind, convincing us that we live in a bubble safe from change.

Do you feel it? The sense of being watched? I do.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

It had nothing to do with whether the water was frightening, or whether he was able to swim or not. No matter how fast he swam, there was something hidden in the water that he...

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

[Fear] can be a pleasure to look at, and I understand how some other humans love to experience his essence. We can sense beauty, even if we don’t see it.