Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
I fear only God, all praises to Him.