Living Courageously: You Can Face Anything, Just Do It Afraid (23 page)

Chapter 1: Say Good-Bye to Fear

1
www.moreillustrations.com

Chapter 4: Phobias

1
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/phobias/DS00272

2
Information provided by Jordan Smoller—Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Author of
The Other Side of Normal.
(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jordan-smoller/biggest-phobias_b_1525627.html)

3
http://animal.discovery.com/tv/my-extreme-animal-phobia/top-10-weirdest-phobias.html

4
www.family-times.net/illustrations/fear/

5
Lloyd C. Douglas,
Magnificent Obsession
(New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929), 5.

6
http://www.statisticbrain.com/fear-phobia-statistics/

Chapter 5: Cultivating Courage

1
Paul Harvey, Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Chapter 11: The Fear of Not Being Wanted

1
Nelson’s Annual Preacher’s Sourcebook: 2003 Edition, p. 385

2
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/true_success_is_overcoming_the_fear_of_being/218403.html

Chapter 12: The Fear of Being Inadequate

1
http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/facing-your-fear-of-failure-jonathan-mcleod-sermon-on-fear-and-worry-89976.asp

2
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/michaeljor127660.html

3
http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/failure.html

4
http://www.henryfordquotes.org/one-who-fears-failure-limits-his-activities-failure-is-only-the-opportunity-to-more-intelligently-begin-again/

Chapter 14: The Fear of Man

1
Sunday School Chronicle, www.moreillustrations.com

Chapter 16: The Fear of Making Mistakes

1
Taken from Alina Tugend,
New York Times,
“The Paralyzing Problem of Too Many Choices.”

Chapter 19: Are You Passing Your Fears on to Your Children?

1
Found at www.a-better-child.org/page/889398

Chapter 20: The Fear of Death

1
http://www.heartlight.org/cgi/simplify.cgi?20050225_feardeath.html

2
Today in the Word, MBI, October 1991, p.33

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