Fear Lest Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
— Samuel Butler
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear…
— Bertrand Russell
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In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.
— Louis IX of France
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The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to…
— H P Lovecraft
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith.…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest…
— Swami Vivekananda
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A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one…
— Caesarius of Arles
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Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to…
— Vincent de Paul
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When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
— Eric Hoffer
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For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to…
— William Shakespeare
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Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ,…
— John Keble
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than…
— Saint Basil
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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the…
— John Bunyan
Who Wrote These Fear Lest Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Fear Lest Quotes as follows: