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I recently read Max Lucado's book, Fearless, and it was so challenging and refreshing for me. I'll probably end up reading it again, but I wanted to share a few quotes with you that I especially liked:
"There's a stampede of fear out there. Let's not get caught in it. Let's be among those who stay calm. Let's recognize danger but not be overwhelmed. Acknowledge threats but refuse to be defined by them. Let others breathe the polluted air of anxiety, not us. Let's be numbered among those who hear a different voice, God's. Enough of these shouts of despair, wails of doom. Why pay head to the doomsdayer on Wall Street or the purveyor of gloom in the newspaper? We will incline our ears elsewhere: upward. We will turn to our Maker, and because we do, we will fear less."
"Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens. It listens to the voice of God calling through Scripture, "Fear not!" It hears Christ's voice comforting through the hospital corridors, graveyards and war zones."
"Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith and your fear will."
"God's resume includes Red Sea openings, lions' mouths closings, Goliath topplings, Lazarus raisings, storm stillings. . ."
"As awe of Jesus expands, fears of life diminish."
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
"How sturdy are the bolts of your belief? Reinforce them with daily Bible readings, regular worship and earnest communion with God."
"And so it is with Christ. The longer we live in Him, the greater He becomes in us. It's not that He changes, but we do; we see more of Him. We see dimensions, aspects, and characteristics we never saw before, increasing and astonishing increments of His purity, power and uniqueness."
