Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.