A passage from the Book of Proverbs affirms this. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (9,10) Pope St. Gregory the Great, in explaining the dynamism of this filial fear ...
“Fear is the mind-killer.” Lady Jessica quietly recites this to herself during her Litany against Fear while her son Paul faces the leader of the Bene Gesserit in Frank Herbert’s novel ...
When we first encounter Gideon, the fifth of the 12 leaders of Israel described in the book called Judges, he is definitely a man who is overwhelmed, even dominated, by fear.
Lord Hermer does not sit in the Commons – declarations ... But faced by Hermer’s munchkins here were defence ministers in puddles of fear. Sir David Davis (Con, Goole) said the coroner ...