Quotes Tagged "fear"

You stopped out of fear, or the subconscious assumption that you are immortal, that there will always be time. You promised yourself; Later.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

Fear of God is a beginning of knowledge. The fear lessened on a higher knowledge. Walk with God is on the top of knowledge.

It pleases the heart to ignore it. You have done what pleases their hearts. You have sustained people among them. Yet they cover their faces in fear of tomorrow. There was an old man who was about to die, while his son was a child without knowledge.

Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge.

Knowing something in your head and knowing it deep down where fear lives are two different things.

You cannot unsee what has been seen once the veil is lifted, Reverend Olumide says in church. We cannot return to the garden of Eden. When I meet with him he says I need to confront my fears, that the devil torments us with that which scares us most. So, I cross the line between the blue hallways tiles and the white locker-room floor and navigate my way to locker number thirty-two.

You cannot unsee what has been seen once the veil is lifted, Reverend Olumide says in church. We cannot return to the garden of Eden. When I meet with him he says I need to confront my fears, that the devil torments us with that which scares us most. So, I cross the line between the blue hallways tiles and the white locker-room floor and navigate my way to locker umber thirty-two.

True wisdom is not acquired by capturing knowledge, it is earned by acting upon knowledge. True bravery is not the absence of fear, it is doing what you feel is the right thing to do, in spite of fear.

When I was four I believed everything, accepted everything, and was scared of nothing. Now I was eight, and I believed in what I could see and was scared of anything I couldn't. Scared of things in the darkness, of things invisible to see.

Maarifa hupunguza woga.

The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.

The more diseases you know about the sicker you are.

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and you're being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

It is an insult to live in the fear of darkness.

The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.

If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.