“If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.”
“Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.”
“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”
“Death holds no fear for me. I shall conquer it as I conquer all things.”
“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.”
“In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.”