Monday, 13 January 2025

MANY FEARS ARE BASELESS

 

          MANY FEARS ARE BASELESS

Fear is defined as: an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. Some of its common synonyms are :  terror, panic, alarm, fright, dread, horror, phobia,  nervousness and timidity.

Fear is omnipresent. You are afraid at many a place  ---- at your home of some  perceived threat, at your office of some action against you, in your business of some  expected loss, on the road of some accident, near the river of getting drowned , of a weather condition causing some dangerous effect , during a journey about losing something, of separation from some beloved friend or relative and most of all losing your life sooner or later.

Most of these fears are imaginary. They seldom take place to destroy your peace of mind or happiness.

If you are law-abiding and afraid of displeasing God, you are a good deal safe from fears. Laws take care of innocents and God is as gracious as your father.

Fear makes you weak and cowardly. Fearlessness helps  you remain strong and courageous.

  Quite a few fears are transitory. They don’t have a long duration. A large number of them are no worse than phobias and have no enduring basis.

Here are some important thoughts about fear:

*Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. ----English author Samuel Johnson (1709-84).

** Good men have the fewest fears. He who fears to do wrong has but one great fear; he has a thousand who has overcome it. ----American author Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904) .

***It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man. ---- Scottish-American  divine John Witherspoon (1723-94).

****There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. ---Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.----Bovee

            Finally, this quote: A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

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G.R.Kanwal

13th January 2025

 

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