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.
They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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