Top 100 Quotes About Fear Of God
#1. There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
Robert Frost
#2. A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
Abigail Adams
#3. By Genesis 6:5, we see that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The fear of God was suppressed by man's thirst for the ungodly. How does Yahweh respond to this rebellion? He sends a flood.
Chris Poblete
#4. We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
Francis Chan
#5. It is but knowledge, putting it into practice, circumspection, fear of God, and sincerity with Him, August and Majestic is He.
Ahmad Ibn Zayn Al-Habashi
#6. Michael Vick healthy in the pocket, as a pocket passer, puts the fear of Doug Flutie in me. Michael Vick running around with all his legs (healthy) puts the fear of God.
Michael Irvin
#8. If I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.
William Shakespeare
#9. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God).
Edward T. Welch
#10. Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.
Edward T. Welch
#11. When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#12. All is in the hands of God, except the fear of God ...
The Talmud
#13. There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?
Thomas A Kempis
#14. That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.
Nina Simone
#15. The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;
And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
Edmund Waller
#16. The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.
Rudy Giuliani
#17. Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.
John Cassian
#18. What indicates a person's weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.
Ibn Hazm
#19. As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#21. Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men. All preachers of the gospel will do well to recollect this saying daily.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#22. The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.
Randy Alcorn
#23. I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Sir 25:8 Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.
Various
#25. There are more than 150 references to the fear of God in the Bible.6 While the majority of these occur in the Old Testament, there are a sufficient number in the New Testament to convince us that fearing God is indeed an attitude of heart we should cultivate today.
Jerry Bridges
#26. We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players ... that's fading away.
Bill Simmons
#27. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
John Bunyan
#29. ... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.
J.P. Donleavy
#30. I think the fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask for less, expect less, and are satisfied with less because we are afraid to ask for or expect more.
Francis Chan
#31. Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#32. We must know how to confide. There is the fear of God and the fear of a Judas. Too much fear makes one labour without love, and too much confidence prevents from considering the danger which we must overcome.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#33. Sir 25:16 The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning of faith is to be fast joined unto it.
Various
#34. There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#35. The fear of God kills all other fears.
Hugh Black
#36. A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.
Dorotheus Of Gaza
#38. There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.
Charles Kingsley
#39. The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.
Mark Batterson
#40. Regrettably, many modern readers grow perplexed at the mere mention of the fear of God. They reject any notion that fear is to characterize the Christian's approach to God.
John Flavel
#41. Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.
Matthew Henry
#42. The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.
William Gilmore Simms
#43. Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
Francis Chan
#44. It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#45. Fear of God is thrown away," lamented Brigitta in Rome, "and in its place is a bottomless bag of money." All the Ten Commandments, she said, had been reduced to one: "Bring hither the money.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#47. The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.
Thomas Cranmer
#48. If we don't get a good day's work out of you, we'll maroon you.
He ignored Barnaby's raised eyebrow. They'd never marooned anybody before, even the English nobles they hated, but Gideon meant to put the fear of God into the man.
Sabrina Jeffries
#49. have seen how the fear of becoming subject to God's revenge and punishment has paralyzed the mental and emotional lives of many people, independently of their age, religion, or life-style. This paralyzing fear of God is one of the great human tragedies.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#50. There is a fear of God that adoration enfolds with arms of thanks. It acknowledges the absolute power of the Creator and the inconsequence of man. This holy and reverent fear is the beginning of wisdom, for it is wise to know one's place in this world...and in the next.
Cheryl Zelenka
#51. When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.
Noah Webster
#52. Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
Ray Comfort
#53. There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr
#54. The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
George Herbert
#55. The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it." - Charles Spurgeon "We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord)." - Edward T. Welch
Randy Alcorn
#57. A stranger to the fear of God is a stranger to the living God Himself.
Albert N. Martin
#58. Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.
Thomas A Kempis
#59. The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
Craig Groeschel
#60. Having the fear of God means you have such a love and reverence for God that you are afraid of what life would be like without Him.
Stormie O'martian
#61. Revelation is purposive. Its end is not simply divine self-display, but the overcoming of human opposition, alienation and pride, and their replacement by knowledge, love and fear of God. In short: revelation is reconciliation.
John B. Webster
#62. People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't. (145)
Dorothy Allison
#63. I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.
Richard Kadrey
#64. Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
William Penn
#65. People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
Vance Havner
#66. The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
Martin Luther
#67. I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.
Denis Leary
#68. Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
John Bunyan
#69. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#70. Fear of God and love for God coexist happily in the heart of people who are rightly related to Him.
Max Anders
#71. There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.
John Calvin
#72. the fear of God" is increased by an experience of God's grace and forgiveness. What it describes is a loving, joyful awe and wonder before the greatness of God.
Timothy J. Keller
#73. No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#74. Knowledge creates fear of God
Imam Ali
#75. It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God.
R.T. Kendall
#76. Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming"; "Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em
Puggy Pearson
#77. The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.
Matthew Henry
#79. And those who cherished the fear of God and lived in harmony with his will continued to increase in knowledge and wisdom throughout their life.
Ellen G. White
#80. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
R.C. Sproul
#81. I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven's firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.
E.B. White
#82. This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort
#83. Sir 9:22 Let just men be thy guests, and let thy glory be in the fear of God.
Various
#84. Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#85. Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God
or literally the hell we might have to pay
the rest of us would just take what we wanted.
Mitch Albom
#86. Nothing so readily renews the decrepit soul, and enables it to approach the Lord, as fear of God, attentiveness, constant meditation on the words of Scripture, the arming of oneself with prayer, and spiritual progress through the keeping of vigils.
Brock Bingaman
#87. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of.
Francis Chan
#88. I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
Dory Previn
#89. There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#90. Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
Johann Arndt
#91. I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
#92. I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint.
Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
Anais Nin
#93. Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel Johnson
#95. Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of secular liberals who get itchy and twitchy at any reminder of our religious roots as a nation.
Mona Charen
#97. Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#98. The nature of pure and genuine religion ... consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law.
John Calvin
#99. Now I know that you love me more than anything in the world." That's what "the fear of God" means.
Timothy J. Keller
#100. In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.
Francis Quarles
