Ann Voskamp Quotes

There can be no security where there is fear.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

Where fear is, happiness is not.

People want security in this insecure world.

When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us.

We'll have nothing to fear.

We must choose between freedom and fear – we cannot have both.

I think people let their guards down when they think that they're not being intimidated or they're not being threatened.

If people don't feel safe, they're not going to have hope.

Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.

I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.

I don't want terror in America.

I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

The most terrible of all things is terror.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

Innocence has nothing to dread.