Be Afraid Quotes

“We sacrifice others and feed on them in order to maintain our own existence.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“The West...struggles with death, hidden away behind closed coffins and curtains, language of “sleep,” “passing away,” and “rest”—unconscious strategies to enable us to avoid the power of death over our lives.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“To stand and look at our image, and then to ask questions as to our identity and place within the universe is unique to humanity.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“There is a reality in modern Western society whereby we are unable to look at ourselves truthfully, for we see something that causes us pain, distress, and a sense of shame.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Our self-worth and identity are often projections made up from the images given to us, the words spoken over us, the actions done to us.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Compassion...is a terrifying thing, and our desire to see our enemies destroyed is far greater than our belief in the power of redemption...”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...we must seek other ways than violence to rid ourselves of monsters.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Horror invites us to a face-to-face contact with the worst, a truthful revealing of humanity’s capacity for great evil and great good, of the deep and unconscious fears within us all...”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“When authentic speech is lost, what it is replaced with is fear, for without authentic speech creative acts of love are lost, lost to illusionary acts that maintain a culture of deception.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...in the power of love and creativity, in the power of imagination...truth and hope is made possible.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Shelob represents pure fear, that which paralyses us, a terror that horrifies us into inactivity.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Nonviolent resistance is not the simple acceptance of your lot, the belief that you should simply roll over and die; rather, it is the active pursuit of liberation, the belief that transformation is truly possible without violence.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Jesus shows us the Way to Truthfully Live, but will we be brave enough to follow him through our fears and into the pursuit of unconditional love?”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...horror reminds us of the utter hopelessness and meaninglessness of evil and suffering; when a child dies of cancer there is no “hidden” meaning, no cosmic plan that we have to wait for to be revealed one day that will make sense of this great suffering, rather, the death of any child is an utter disgrace, a meaningless void of pain that hurts every part of what it means to be human, and any attempt to frame such tragedy as part of God’s plan needs to be exorcised from all our thinking.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Horror gives our fear a voice, an outlet that expresses all that we fear we are.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Horror shows us that violence simply breeds violence, that there is no path to peace through retribution, that no wound is healed through the act of wounding.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“The gospel is the declaration that love has entered into the fullness of our violence, fear, and horror in the Person of Jesus; love is the cosmic cure to the totality of death, not simply a soothing word when we are trembling, but the promise that one day all will be well.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World