Consequently
an overwhelming fear of God and His wrath seized their hearts, and their pious devotions were regarded as a means of escape from the judgment to come.
Not exact matches
That would be like saying all Canadians are evil, undermining atheists when in fact the
overwhelming majority
of Canadians are in fact
God fearing and
God honoring.
My present understanding
of the evidences
of human history shows an
overwhelming number
of gods being worshipped, adored,
feared, or served.
Whether one is
overwhelmed with
fears, anxieties, angers, thoughts
of one's own hard lot, or weighed down with remorse, the best curative is to lay both one's troubles and one's sins before
God, and leave them there.