Mother Angelica Quotes

Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do...even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I like to do something I fear.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live.

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.

It needs courage to be afraid.