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Fear Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger…
- Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a…
- You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold…
- When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
- Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
- Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
- If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
- Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true…
- Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
- Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new…
- Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in…
- The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a…
- Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges…
More Fear Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad