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Fear: Quotations from Burning Words

Fear is entirely based on a consideration of some possible, personal, evil consequence coming down upon me from the clear sky above me. Love is based upon the forgetfulness of self altogether. The very essence of love is that it looks away from itself, and to another. Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.— SARAH SMILEY

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.— WITHERSPOON

There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.— PASCAL

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.— BOVEE

Fear is the preface to love; and if it be in thy soul, my brother, let it lead thee to the place where there shall dawn upon thy heart that great and Divine vision of a face all full of mercy, of a heart all full of love, of a Christ that hath died for thee, of a Father that bends down to bless thee: - and then cast thyself down there and say, "I trembled because I hated. Thou hast loved me, and I am overcome. I love, and am glad. Father, Thy side is my home. Thou art the portion of my heart and my joy forever."