It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
FEAR, LOSE OUR FEAR OF BEING WRONG
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
