“God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. ”

“When we are born into God’s family through our faith in Jesus, God gives us the capacity or capability to live as his children.”

“The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to go to God, and behave ourselves towards God as children; and it gives us clear evidence of our union to God as His children, and so casts out fear. So that it appears that the witness of the Spirit the apostle speaks of, is far from being any whisper, or immediate suggestion or revelation; but that gracious holy effect of the Spirit of God in the hearts of the saints, the disposition and temper of children, appearing in sweet childlike love to God, which casts out fear or a spirit of a slave.”

“Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.”

“We articulate our fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.”

“We articulate out fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.”