Fear Quotes - Page 58

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

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 always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Laughter is poison to fear.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

No truth could ever fear me.

There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.