210 Quotes About Frightened

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?

I would much rather ‘build up’ your faith than ‘play on’ your fears.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.

Behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than this pathetic fear that spends every waking moment of its day fearing that we might actually succeed.  

Failure is only failure if you focus on what didn’t work rather than focusing on what could if you did it differently.

Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.