When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.