Having ‘no fear of God’ went on the Pope is tantamount to putting oneself in His place, feeling as if one were the master of good and evil, of life and death. Instead those who fear God feel as safe as a child in his mother’s arms". In other words, "those who fear God are serene, even amidst the storms, because God, as Jesus revealed to us, is a good and merciful Father. Those who love Him have no fear". The Pope, making one further distinction between human fears and the fear of God, quoted the apostle John to say that "in love there is no fear", but, "on the contrary, perfect love drives out fear, because fear supposes a punishment and those who fear are not perfect in their love”. As a consequence, he explained, the believer "is not scared by anything, because he knows he is in God’s hands, he knows that the evil and the irrational do not have the last word, but the only Lord of the world and life is Christ".
