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“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.”

Ifs Moments Past Fear Memories Doubt Failing Regret Future Capable Vulnerable Delusion Present Moment

Author:Jan Phillips

“In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.”

Fear Doubt Worst Prophet

Author:Statius

“There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.”

Long Has Beens Evil House Fear Difficult Black White Taken Doubt Taught Neighbor Granted Witch Provoking Yards Validity Taken For Granted Unchanging Stampede

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.”

Looks May Turns Fear Doubt Objects Prove Difficulty Tables Ghost Doctrine Twilight Ghastly

Book:The Recreations of a Country Parson

Source: The Recreations of a Country Parson

“Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.”

Heart Fear Doubt Noble Jealousy Jealous Spells Nobility Pettiness Doubt And Fear

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.”

Way Evil Fear Doubt Devil One Way

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.”

Fear Doubt Dare

Author:Frederic Lawrence Knowles