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“Horror invites us to a face-to-face contact with the worst, a truthful revealing of humanity’s capacity for great evil and great good, of the deep and unconscious fears within us all...”

Evil Fear Horror Good

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Horror gives our fear a voice, an outlet that expresses all that we fear we are.”

Quotes Fear Violence Horror Horror Fiction

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Shelob represents pure fear, that which paralyses us, a terror that horrifies us into inactivity.”

Fear Horror Terror The Lord Of The Rings Spider Shelob

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“When authentic speech is lost, what it is replaced with is fear, for without authentic speech creative acts of love are lost, lost to illusionary acts that maintain a culture of deception.”

Love Truth Fear Horror Authenticity Deception

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Compassion...is a terrifying thing, and our desire to see our enemies destroyed is far greater than our belief in the power of redemption...”

Compassion Horror Terror Quotes About Life

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...horror reminds us of the utter hopelessness and meaninglessness of evil and suffering; when a child dies of cancer there is no “hidden” meaning, no cosmic plan that we have to wait for to be revealed one day that will make sense of this great suffering, rather, the death of any child is an utter disgrace, a meaningless void of pain that hurts every part of what it means to be human, and any attempt to frame such tragedy as part of God’s plan needs to be exorcised from all our thinking.”

Truth Suffering Hope Horror Meaning Of Life

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“The West...struggles with death, hidden away behind closed coffins and curtains, language of “sleep,” “passing away,” and “rest”—unconscious strategies to enable us to avoid the power of death over our lives.”

Death Suffering Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“We sacrifice others and feed on them in order to maintain our own existence.”

Suffering Quotes Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...in the power of love and creativity, in the power of imagination...truth and hope is made possible.”

Love Inspirational Truth Hope Life Quotes Power Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“The gospel is the declaration that love has entered into the fullness of our violence, fear, and horror in the Person of Jesus; love is the cosmic cure to the totality of death, not simply a soothing word when we are trembling, but the promise that one day all will be well.”

Love Jesus Fear Peace Christianity Violence Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Horror shows us that violence simply breeds violence, that there is no path to peace through retribution, that no wound is healed through the act of wounding.”

Peace Violence Horror Forgiveness

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

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