5th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (30 May 1967)
1960s
“Becoming more callous and hardened when God thunders verbally from heaven, they obstinately persist in their rebellion. It is only when actually smitten by his hand that they are forced, whether they will or not, to fear. This fear the sacred writers term servile, and oppose to the free and voluntary fear which becomes sons.”
Book 3, Chapter 2, Section 27, p. 480
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
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“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.”
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“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