How Candace Cameron Bure Fights This Relatable Fear

Published: January 19, 2026

By Mallory Mattingly

Just like many of us, actress Candace Cameron Bure struggles with the fear of failure.

“My fear, the lie is always that I’m fearful. I’m not good enough. I’m not smart enough to be here. There are much smarter people than me. They’re around, so I’m not gonna do a good enough job. Just the fear of failure is always running in my mind,” Bure admitted in a recent podcast episode. “And Satan can be so discouraging that way, and yet I know that I have to take that thought captive and literally throw it out and go, ‘No, you don’t get to tell me.'”

“And I say that with humility, too, because I know I’m not the smartest person in the room; I’m not trying to convince myself that I am. It’s not that. It’s just to say that God is more powerful than that, and if God has opened the door and has me here, then He can use me, no matter how intelligent or how many degrees I do or don’t have,” she continued.

This is something the Apostle Paul urges us to do in 2 Corinthians 10:5, which reads: “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

Though Bure has to fight this fear frequently, she doesn’t shy away from using her platform for God’s glory.

“My faith has always been very important to me,” she said a few years ago. “While my movies haven’t been faith-based movies over the years, they were always just a stepping stone that if people wanted to look into who I am on a Candace Cameron Bure level—not a character that I’m playing — that [on] my website and when I would speak in interviews that I would be fully genuine and authentic and who I am as a Christian woman.”

She leans on her faith in the good times and when life gets hard.

A few years ago, Bure came under fire for her comments about marriage, which resulted in the loss of friendships, contracts and work opportunities. During that time, she clung to God’s promises and the knowledge that He gave her a position in culture for a reason.

“Am I going to let all of these words really hurt me so much that I will no longer be effective for the kingdom of God? That’s exactly what the enemy wants,” Bure explained on her podcast last year. “I’m not giving it to him because I hate him. I hate the enemy.”

“What am I going to do? I’m going to pick myself up, and I’m going to trust you, Lord, that you’ve got my back, and I’m going to take one step at a time,” she emphasized. “However it looks and however long it takes. But I’m going to keep walking with you, hand in hand, God, because the enemy is not going to win, and he’s not going to win over my life, and I’m set in that, I know that and I’m not going to let him take me down. I trust God too much.”

Though her fear of failure could’ve made her cower, Bure trusted that she was walking through the doors God opened for her.

If you’re fearing failure today, take Bure’s encouragement to heart. God put you exactly where He wants you. Give Him those thoughts and be obedient to what He’s called you to.

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