My big weakness is fear of trying new things and taking on all the details of the project. I’m glad I know that about myself. I don’t want to say no to something just because of fear and laziness. Taking on a new and big challenge builds personal confidence. Confidence in which you can look back and say after it’s all over, “Yes, I did that in my life and I have no regrets.” I plan to pound this concept into the heads of my children!
Fear of Trying by Mary Wilder Tileston
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
DEUTERONOMY 5:32
NO duty, however hard and perilous, should be feared one-half so much as failure in the duty. . .

People sometimes shrink from responsibility, saying they dare not accept it because it is so great. But in shrinking from duty they are really encountering a far more serious condition than that which they evade. It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibility of not doing it. We have abundant assurance that we shall receive all the strength we need to perform any duty God allots to us; but if we fall out of the line of obedience, and refuse to do anything which we ought to do, we find ourselves at once out of harmony with God’s law and God’s providence, and cannot escape the consequences of our failure.
J. R. MILLER
KNOWLEDGE is a call to action; an insight into the way of perfection is a call to perfection.
J. H. NEWMAN
Taken from Joy And Strength @ Back to the Bible