Fear

A man who is afraid to make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Monty Python comedian-turned-business consultant John Cleese, at a conference on outsourcing in Los Angeles during the week of 4 April 2005

Fear

God exists — and the Eternal, All-Powerful, All-Present God is the loving Father of mankind.

If you would meditate upon this fact, until you had some degree of understanding of what it really means, most of your difficulties and physical ailments would disappear, for they are rooted and grounded in fear.  The underlying cause of all trouble is fear.  If only you could realize to some extent that Omnipotent Wisdom is your living, loving Father, most of your fears would go.  If you could realize it completely, every negative thing in your life would vanish away, and you would demonstrate perfection in every phase.

Emmet Fox, Power Through Constructive Thinking, ©1932 renewed 1968, pg. 17

It began to look as though religious people were right after all.

AA, page. 11

But it doesn’t make it any less tough a row to hoe.

1 Comment

  1. We are in good company meditating on this idea. Abe Lincoln did. When trying to understand the meaning and significance of the war he finally decided that “the Almighty has His own purposes” and that “I have to believe that He who created the world still governs it”.

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Fear

I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.  Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.  I will face my fear.  I will permit it to pass over me and through me.  And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.  Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.  Only I will remain.

Dune by Frank Herbert

Fear

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision.  That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine.  When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.

Gen. George S. Patton