What comes to mind when you read this quote?

Question

"Where there is no fear there can be no love, and where there is no love there can be no fear."

What meaning of the word "fear" is being used in this phrase, and what is its connection with love?

Answer 1

If you go wholeheartedly into a loving relationship, you must be prepared to accept that you will have ups and downs and sometimes that means fear too. Sometimes love can hurt and then we can be afraid to love again and fear making the same mistakes. The bit about where there is no love there can be no fear, may sound good in theory, however, what a tedious and boring life that might be. The meaning of the word fear being used in this phrase is connected to love in the sense of emotion, passion (or passion dying) and hurt. As the old saying goes, "it is better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all"...

Answer 2

it comes to my mind that fear is somehing negative and love is positive.so they do not convey any meaning. EXCEPT in case eternal  love. .when you have fear of  GOD then you start loving him for the fullfillment of your  getting his blessings.

Answer 3

If you are too fearful of being hurt, dumped, or rejected, you can never truly open your heart to feeling love.

A woman who was abused by her husband fears falling in love again because her new husband may beat her too and she may lose out on finding the best love she ever had.

A man who is dumped by a long-time girlfriend turns away from finding another one out of fear of being dumped again.

Everything has a touch of fear, of uncertainty to it but we have to learn to get through that fear and open our hearts to the possibility that we'll be safe and loved for everything we have and are and can be...even with the possibility that it will end, maybe even end badly.

Fear also creates a sense of distrust in us and when we learn to let go of that and fall into someone's arms and rely on their strengths, we find love.  

Answer 4

Surely it means to love someone you need to have fear to fear losing them, fear being hurt by them, and fear things for them.

For if you love someone you want to protect them too, so you need to fear for them as well as yourself.

Answer 5

all I can think of is John 4:18 ( There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.)

Answer 6

...what comes to mind is a chinese fortune cookie...

...HATE FOR BOTH WORDS...

Answer 7

What comes to mind is that one only fears the loss of something they love. So without love, there is no fear of that loss. Conversely, if you have no fear of loss, then you don't really love the person or thing in question.

Answer 8

Nothing ventured nothing gained. If you aren't able to fear being hurt by someone emotionally you can't truly love someone neither.  

Answer 9

"Where there is no fear there can be no love, and where there is no love there can be no fear."

It is kind of the yin and yang thing, right?

When there are such strong forces as fear, which in all of us humans screws us up in one way or many many ways, and love, which makes us feel at any degree large amounts of feelings so powerful that maybe the only thing to match the powerfully feeling of love is the powerful feeling of fear.  Some people also say that Fear is the heart of love; this can be answered and interpreted in many different ways and dimensions.  

I guess it just means that the two roll hand in hand and that one can not survive without the other.  When you love a mate or a friend or a family member or whatever it takes a certain amount of fear of loss to understand the degree of feeling that love emits in us all.  

Love feeds fear and fear feeds love it seems.

Love, idealistically, is the power of all good and all truth.  

Fear is the power of negative things like death, someone ruining your plans, despair, worry case scenarios, and things of that nature.  It represents things that destroy you as a person...

With the power of things right there always the temptation of things wrong....

I am rambling. WOW

Basically, your love for anyone or anything is based on how much it would affect you if it was removed completely or augmented in some way.  If you are scared of these things happening, you are in fear of it, therefore the fear feeds the love and the love feeds the fear, you love more when in fear of loss.

yeah.

Answer 10

The 'fear' is fear of rejection by the loved one.

Read that way it makes sense.