"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."

Fear, Reason, Will

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"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."

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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Fear, Caution, Fight, Survival

"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Fear, Death, Reality, Courage

"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fear, Mind, Society, Doubt

"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Fear, Mystery, Danger

"A monster's worst fear is of being found."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Fear, Survival, Warning, Life

"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fear, Opportunity, Growth, Change

"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"So many horrid Ghosts."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

Word, Words

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."

God, Truth

"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."

Completion, Joy, Order, Suffering

"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."

Evil, Grace, Reason, Will

"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."

Intelligence, Confidence, Spirit

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."

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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."

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"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."

Mother, Idols

"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation."

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"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"

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