Top 100 Quotes About The Fear Of God
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.
Denis Leary
#4. 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
#5. There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.
John Calvin
#6. 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
#7. No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#8. It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God.
R.T. Kendall
#9. 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
#10. The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.
Matthew Henry
#12. 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
#13. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
R.C. Sproul
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Sir 9:22 Let just men be thy guests, and let thy glory be in the fear of God.
Various
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
#22. We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
Otto Von Bismarck
#24. The fear of God is nothing compared to the fear of tragedy and loss. -The Lady
Brenna Yovanoff
#25. The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.
Alvin C. York
#26. The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
#27. It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
Lin Yutang
#29. Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
#30. Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
John Calvin
#32. When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
Abu Bakr
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel Johnson
#36. Now I know that you love me more than anything in the world." That's what "the fear of God" means.
Timothy J. Keller
#37. Great Leaders do NOT break the law, not because of the fear of being caught but because of the fear of God & love for the land
Fela Durotoye
#38. Without the fear of God it is impossible to say 'No' to temptations and evil.
Sunday Adelaja
#39. The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.
Max Anders
#40. 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
#41. I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.
Richard Kadrey
#42. 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
#43. The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
Craig Groeschel
#44. A stranger to the fear of God is a stranger to the living God Himself.
Albert N. Martin
#46. 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
#47. The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
George Herbert
#48. There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr
#49. Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
Ray Comfort
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.
Thomas Cranmer
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. The fear of God kills all other fears.
Hugh Black
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#65. 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
#66. ... 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
#68. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
John Bunyan
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Sir 25:8 Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.
Various
#72. The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.
Randy Alcorn
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;
And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
Edmund Waller
#76. There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?
Thomas A Kempis
#77. All is in the hands of God, except the fear of God ...
The Talmud
#78. 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
#79. Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.
Edward T. Welch
#80. If I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.
William Shakespeare
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
Donald Cargill
#85. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#86. But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.
David Jeremiah
#87. 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
#88. 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.
Joyce Meyer
#89. The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more - except his God.
Anonymous
#90. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#91. 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
#92. God's Peace (Jer. 16:5) God's peace is unmistakable. Regardless of the circumstances, there is an abiding confidence that all is well. When God chooses to remove His peace, anxiety and fear prevail and nothing can calm the spirit.
Richard Blackaby
#93. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]
Edward T. Welch
#94. A wonderful truth engulfed her. She was safe. They were all still safe. As long as they followed the ways of God, they had nothing to fear. He was holy - but he was just. And as long as they followed their godly leaders - like Peter, like Stephen - they would remain protected and on the right path.
Janette Oke
#95. I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God's finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#96. Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. But we do not fear silence, for often God speaks loudest in the quiet of our hearts. And
Diana Gabaldon
#98. Fear of God and love for God coexist happily in the heart of people who are rightly related to Him.
Max Anders
#99. I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.
John Wesley
#100. Like certain devotees, who think they can fool God and wrest a pardon by paying lip-service to prayer and adopting the humble attitude of the penitent, Therese humiliated herself, beat her chest, found words of repentance, without having anything in the bottom of her heart except fear and cowardice.
Emile Zola
