Rob Bell Quotes

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

What an incredible drug fear is.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.