“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”1 – Leonard Ravenhill
“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.” – William Gurnall
“The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.” – Matthew Henry’s Matthew Commentary
“To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.” – D. L. Moody
“The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.” – Max Lucado
“When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.” – R. C. Sproul
“The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.” – Brother Yun
“How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, in a believer’s ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.” – John Newton
“Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God’s perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.” – A. W. Tozer
“Life…as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.” – Charles Swindoll
“Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.” – Tim LaHaye
“If you fear God, you really need fear nothing else.” – Zac Poonen
“Replacing ‘what if’ with ‘even if’ in our mental vocabulary is one of the most liberating exchanges we can ever make. We trade our irrational fears of an uncertain future for the loving assurance of an unchanging God. We see that even if the very worst happens, God will carry us. He will still be good. And he will never leave us.” – Joni Eareckson Tada
“If there is anything excellent, it is salvation; if there be anything necessary, it is working out salvation; if there be any tool to work with, tis holy fear.” – Thomas Watson
“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.” – A. B. Simpson
“It is better to make a thousand failures than to be too cowardly to ever undertake anything.” – Clovis G. Chappell
“With the power of God within us, we need never fear the powers around us.”- Woodrow Kroll
“A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.” – George Macdonald
“I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.” – Thomas Merton
“If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer – His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.” – John Newton
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”- Corrie Ten Boom
“Only he who can say, ‘The Lord is the strength of my life’ can say, ‘Of whom shall I be afraid?’” – Alexander MacLaren
“Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.” – Rick Warren
“Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.” – Hannah Whitall Smith
“The fear of man strangles us, because we can never please everybody; but the fear of the Lord frees us, because it challenges us to live and serve for an audience of One.” – Paul Chappell
1 All of these quotations listed in this devotion are from the following websites: