In the interesting web magazine The Other Journal I read the following wise words:
Scott Bader-Saye (SBS): I would say, first, that we cannot rightly resist fear tactics by seeking to be fearless. Although fearlessness might seem an attractive option, Thomas Aquinas rightly observed that fearlessness is a vice, not a virtue. Fear is born of love, because it is only when we love something that we fear its loss. So one way to be fearless is to refuse love, to refuse the attachments (even the attachment to life itself) that make us vulnerable. For Christians, such a response proves to be vicious because it turns us away from the great command to love God and to love the neighbor as ourselves.
Fear is so often seen as a bad thing. Rather let's see it as the beginning of hope in action.