Choose a topic from Part 2A:
1. Fear makes a person shrink into himself; it is a kind of contracting of the appetites.
2. Fear drives a man to seek advice and direction, for the dread of impending evil takes away self-confidence and self-reliance.
3. In the body, fear manifests itself by trembling, pallor, nervousness, and other types of agitation.
4. Unless fear be so great as to deprive a person, momentarily, of the use of reason, it does not remove the person's responsibility for his acts. Fear indeed may have effects which interfere with bodily action; trembling hands may be ineffective, quaking knees may not support the body. But fear, short of that which takes away reason, cannot directly affect the intellect and will. Indeed, a moderate fear is a stimulus to the mind.
"As the flesh is nourished by food, so is man supported by prayers"
St Augustine
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"A person who rails at God in adversity, suffers without merit; moreover by his lack of resignation he adds to his punishment in the next life and experiences greater disquietude of mind in this life."
St Alphonsus de Liguori
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"It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides.
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Thomas á Kempis
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