'...the Bible talks of the fear of the Lord - not to scare us but to bring us to awesome attention before the overwhelming grandeur of God, to shut up our whining and chattering and stop our running and fidgeting so that we can really see him as he is and listen to him as he speaks his merciful, life-changing words of forgiveness.'
Eugene H Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, p.114.
