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But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.

As death, therefore, is hanging over our head every hour, how can a man ever be unshaken in soul if he fears it?

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.

Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself

Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.

Beside, that the ills which he fears he may suffer, he suffers in the very fear of them.

Can there be any man so fearful, that had not rather fall once than hang always in suspense?

From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.