being Fearless

Dear Jesus, do something. - Vladimir Nabokov

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. - William Shakespeare

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying. - Mark Batterson

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers. - Colin Powell

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. - Thomas Fuller

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power. - Timothy Roderick

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. - Norman Cousins

No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country. - Edward Everett Hale

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. - Immanuel Kant

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires. - Jean de La Fontaine

Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence. - Mark Batterson

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. - Arnold Haultain

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. - Norman Vincent Peale

For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church. - Sylvain of Athos

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide. - Takayuki Ikkaku

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms. - Morgan Rhodes

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. - Diana Robinson

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. - Charles H Spurgeon

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you preach to the hurts of people, you will never lack for an audience. - Joseph Parker

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. By these we reach divinity. - John Donne

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin

At the sum of all fears, the only thing that is painted... is a reflection of you. - Lionel Suggs

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion. - Fred Allen

There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice. - C S Lewis

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. - Corrie ten Boom

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. - Timothy Keller

Five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving. - Ravi Zacharias

The value of persistent prayer is not that he will hear us, but that we will finally hear him. - William McGill

Sometimes you cannot worship from your strength but you must choose to worship from your faith. - Unknown

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. - Anatole France

Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen. - Mark Batterson

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. - E.M. Bounds

The bulletin board on the lawn of a New Jersey Church reads "We reserve the right to accept everybody." - John Kazmark

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself. - Mark Batterson

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. - Jerry Gille

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

Faith isn't about always having all the answers. Faith is about believing that God will always come through for you. - Unknown

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed. - Linda Wooten

Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher... but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. - Brenda Schaepp

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all - Marquis of Montrose

What is a dream? That transient power that cometh near the midnight hour. To carry me to pastures new and bid my anxious fears adieu. - Alan Parry-Booth

Prayer and the Bible became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. - Rosa Parks

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. - William James

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James R Lowell