What overcomes fear?
I would say that religious attitudes overcome fear. If you have a loving attitude toward your fellow human beings, you will not fear them. “Perfect love casteth out fear.” An obedient attitude toward God will bring you into constant awareness of God’s presence, and then fear is gone. When you know that you are only wearing the body, which can be destroyed–that you are the reality which activates the body and cannot be destroyed–how can you be afraid? PEACE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS EXCERPTS from the NEWSLETTERS FOUR LETTERS: One day as I was answering my mail a woman said to me, “What can people do for peace?” I replied, “Let’s see what these letters say.” The first one said, “I’m a farm housewife. Since talking with you, I’ve realized I should be doing something for peace–especially since I’m raising four sons. Now I am writing one letter every day to someone in our government or in the United Nations who has done something for peace, commending them to give them moral support.” The next
