Neal A. Maxwell
"Mormon sounds very much like his brother John in faraway Jerusalem, who, in the ‘sunset’ of his life, also said:
’There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.’ (1 John 4:18.)
“Only men free of fear and tenderized by the spiritual experiences that flow from living in basic accord with the commandments of Christ can focus so congruently—though continents and centuries apart—on the rewards of the first and second great commandments.” (A Time To Choose, p. 57)
Ezra Taft Benson
“We live in a world of fear today. Fear seems to be almost everywhere present. But there is no place for fear among the Latter-day Saints, among men and women who keep the commandments, who place their trust in the Almighty, who are not afraid to get down on their knees and pray to our Heavenly Father. God is at the helm. I know it and you know it. Even during the days of persecution and hardship, the Lord has continually encouraged us to trust in Him to keep his commandments, to do that which is right and then to be unafraid.” (Conference Report, April 1954)
Neal A. Maxwell
"We are told that ‘perfect love casteth out fear’ (1 John 4:18; Moroni 8:16). For all of us who still have some fears, how can this really occur?
"If our love of God is sufficiently deep, then we will be sufficiently assured of His enveloping loving-kindness. With this perspective, our fears can shrink. Dread can dissolve. Additionally, there need be no ultimate fear for mankind’s future solely because of proximate circumstances, vexing and besetting as the latter may be.
“Amid our ’small moment,‘ we can know that what we are passing through can be ’for [our] good’ (D&C 122:4, 7). We thus love God sufficiently to trust in His perfect love for us even when we do not know the full meaning of the difficult moment.” (That Ye May Believe, p. 57)