Famous quotes containing the words fear and/or god:
“I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.”
—Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732–1799)
“To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)