
“It is only the fear of God, can deliver us from the fear of man.”
From his sermon "Ministerial Character and Duty". Usually misquoted as "It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man."
“It is only the fear of God, can deliver us from the fear of man.”
From his sermon "Ministerial Character and Duty". Usually misquoted as "It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man."
“It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.”
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.24
“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”
Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
Maxims and Arrows, 7
Variant: Which? Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.”
Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidare cœperunt.
IV, 16, 17.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
“Fear of God is king that dwells only in the heart of a pious one.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002), p. 37
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c.
2013
“As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 444.
“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will. Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115