Though the authority of experience and character is gift of grace it is also achievement on the part of men who work out their salvation with fear and trembling because God works in them. (religion-online.org)
If the drama of the pagan life unfolds between hubris and resignation and the Jew lives in fear and trembling of the living God, the last man exists between terrible anxiety and sublime neutrality. (firstthings.com)
One could undertake such a risky move only with great fear and trembling, hoping it represents a step down the narrow and difficult way that leads to life. (religion-online.org)