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The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

The only fear I have is to fear to get out of the will of God. Outside of the will of God, there’s nothing I want, and in the will of God there’s nothing I fear, for God has sworn to keep me in His will. If I’m out of His will, that is another matter. But if I’m in His will, He’s sworn to keep me.

And He’s able to do it, He’s wise enough to know how to do it and He’s kind enough to want to do it. So really there’s nothing to fear.

I get kidded by my family and friends about this, but I don’t really think I’m afraid of anything. Someone may ask, “What about cancer? Do you ever fear that you’ll die of cancer?” Maybe so, but it will have to hurry up, or I’ll die of old age first. But I’m not too badly worried because a man who dies of cancer in the will of God, is not injured; he’s just dead. You can’t harm a man in the will of God.

Psalm 119:165; Proverbs 3:1–2; Isaiah 26:3

Success and the Christian, 82.

A. W. Tozer

When you respect a person you do not fear that person. What you fear is that you may do something to displease him, and that, not because you fear that he may punish you, but sometimes even because you may feel that, because he is who and what he is, he will not punish you! Reverence is ultimately based upon love; it is the recognition of the greatness of the privilege of being allowed to approach God. There is nothing craven about that; there is no torment in it; there is no bondage in it.

The Sons of God, 224

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

We fear men so much because we fear God so little.

William Gurnall

The fear of men is taken away immediately when we realize that the living God is among us.

Revival, 126

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The fear of the Lord is not just the end of wisdom but its beginning.

Edmund Clowney

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [Holy One] is understanding.

Warren W. Wiersbe