“Fear is a whip of God for the undisciplined devotee. When the fear of God enters into the heart, it turns the flask of the heart into pieces.”

“Fear of God is king that dwells only in the heart of a pious one.”

“I only fear God, know the weapons of the weak, the weakness of the heart, and never fall asleep…”

“Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.”

“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”

“It's not the gods
But our own hearts
We need to fear.
The evil starts
Against all odds
Not there but here.”

“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.”

“The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

“No one can love God consciously in his heart unless he has first feared Him with all his heart. Through the action of fear the soul is purified and, as it were, made malleable and so it becomes awakened to the action of love.”