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Not only Fear... but Love itself has been redfined
antiseptically... to exclude any notion of a fearfullness.
Those who look at Mother Teresa's life of poverty and love of neighbor
cannot understand or see the love that put her
in that pit of despair in her Mission life.
Often, she is dismissed as one who wasted her life in poverty.
It's what Christ tried to convey to his Apostles -
even to the goal of their martyrdom.
A love to die for.
It's how Dostoyevski pointed out the false notion of a "dreamy" love:

"I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you,
for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing
compared with love in dreams.
Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action,
rapidly performed and in the sight of all.
Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long
but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage.
But active love is labor and fortitude,
and for some people too,
perhaps, a complete science."