"As long as you are afraid, you will not sin.” “Maybe, Father, but I suffer a great deal.” “Certainly, one suffers, but one must have confidence; there is the fear of God and the fear of Judas.” Too much fear makes us act without love, and too much confidence causes us not to consider and fear the danger that we must overcome. One should help the other, and go together like two sisters. Always, when we become aware of being afraid, of having too much fear, we should remember become confident. If we are excessively confident, we should become instead a little fearful. Love tends to the object loved, however, in its approach, it is blind, it does not see. But holy fear enlightens it "  St. Pio of Pietrelcina  (AdFP, 548).