Fearless Quotes

“If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.”
― Rachel Starr Thomson, Fearless: Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety

“Victory requires a fight. But the greatest risk of all is that you won’t fight—that you’ll allow fear to keep you on the couch, with your talent buried in the ground and all of its multiplying effects dormant and dead.”
― Rachel Starr Thomson, Fearless: Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety

“Every person—including you—has been given a gift by God. Every gift is of immense value, no matter how it might compare to someone else’s gifts. No one got a cheap or valueless gift from God. Every gift has the capacity to multiply (and is meant to do so). The gifts are essentially “on loan,” meant to be stewarded.”
― Rachel Starr Thomson, Fearless: Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety

“You Have a Gift, and It Is Immensely Valuable”
― Rachel Starr Thomson, Fearless: Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety

“It’s simply to point out that biblical holiness has no inherent connection to oldness, or tradition, or even particularly to rules. It’s an identity, a fundamental self-concept, a core understanding of one’s self and one’s place in the world: I am not my own; I am set apart for God.”
― Rachel Starr Thomson, Fearless: Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety

“In Scripture, obedience is heavily relational. It’s about allegiance and learning to share God’s mind. Even the word for obedience comes from a root that indicates “to hear.” Only someone who is in relationship with God and is listening to him can obey.”
― Rachel Starr Thomson, Fearless: Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety

“Fear and unbelief are actually correlated: if we allow fear to control our lives, it is a choice not to trust God.”
― Rachel Starr Thomson, Fearless: Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety