John Calvin Quotes

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us.

Fear leads to more fear, and trust leads to more trust.

There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom.

I live free of fear and full of hope.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

Faith is the flip side of fear.

Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars, the numberless centuries, The long and heroic struggle of mankind . . . O my Soul, dare to trust this truth! Dare to rest in God's kindly arms, Dare to look confidently into His face, Then launch thyself into life unafraid! Knowing thou art within my Father's house, That thou art surrounded by His love, Thou wilt become master of fear, Lord of Life, conqueror even of death!