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• Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

  William Cowper

  Blessing, Clouds, Saint

  William Cowper, “Light Shining Out Of Darkness”

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• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Fighting, Fate, Successful

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• Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Use your body as a tool to snap yourself into a place of sheer will, determination, and commitment. Face your challenges head on with the core belief that problems are just speed bumps on the road to your dreams. And from that place, when you take massive action-with an effective and proven strategy-you will rewrite your history.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Dream, Determination

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Believe, Blessing

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Rivers, Community, Balance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1001, Best Books on

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• Yesterday a child came out to wonder
  Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
  Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
  And tearful at the falling of a star

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Children, Fall

  Song: The Circle Game

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• I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Believe, Animal, Air

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• God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.

  Joyce Meyer

  Trying, Shy, Want

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• Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being -- as if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.

  Adyashanti

  Fate, Light, Trying

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• Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Attachment, Saint, Flesh

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• Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Men, Self

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.974, GENERAL PRESS

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• Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Men, Space

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.65, Image

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• I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Needs, Succeed, Tough

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Agency, Ruthlessness

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.199, Da Capo Press

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• Because of Jesus Christ the world has changed, the divine Atonement has been made, the price of sin has been paid, and the fearful spectacle of death yields to the light of truth and the assurance of resurrection. Though the years roll by, His birth, His ministry, His legacy continue to guide the destiny of all who follow Him as He so invitingly urged.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Destiny, Yield

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• As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Fear, Hair

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• It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Travel, Wall

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• If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Men, Race

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

  Chanakya

  Running, Wisdom, Men

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• Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'

  Philip Yancey

  Kids, School, Careers

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.38, Zondervan

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• The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Jesus, Powerful

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• In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

  C. S. Lewis

  Fearless, Church, Needs

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• Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Jesus for the Non-Religious”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Fighting, Injustice

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