He who fears God has nothing else to fear.
Interpretation
Having faith in God removes all earthly fears.
This quote suggests that a deep reverence and faith in God empower individuals to confront life’s challenges fearlessly, as spiritual assurance transcends worldly anxieties. It emphasizes the belief that with a strong relationship with the divine, worldly fears lose their grip on one's life.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about overcoming obstacles through faith.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
I spent 24 years in the closet wanting to talk so desperately about who I was and what I am but too afraid to.
Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.
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