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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

— Alphonsus Liguori

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✓Similar Perspectives

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

— Charles Stanley

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

— Michel de Montaigne

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

— Terence

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

— Thomas Carlyle

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

— Patrick Henry

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

— Henri Nouwen

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

— Henry Miller

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