We have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. … There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
– I John 4:16, 18, English Standard Version
The fear of disease and the love of sin are the sources of man’s enslavement. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” but the Scriptures also declare, through the exalted thought of John, that “perfect Love casteth out fear.”
– Mary Baker Eddy, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” p. 373
I love Thy way of freedom, Lord,
To serve Thee is my choice,
In Thy clear light of Truth I rise
And, listening for Thy voice,
I hear Thy promise old and new,
That bids all fear to cease:
My presence still shall go with thee
And I will give thee peace.
– Violet Hay, “Christian Science Hymnal,” No. 136, © CSBD
