Quotes about Anxiety

Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

I spoke up about my difficulties with anxiety and depression to try to help change people's view of those problems and improve understanding. You need to be brave about doing it because you know you'll get negative stuff aimed at you by ignorant people, and I did, but it's all about toughening up and rising above that. It was worth it.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

You might categorize your own fear as anxiety. But while the reality of fear is different for each of us, one thing remains constant: fear robs us of joy. When fear takes center stage, we find it impossible to live in the "what is" because of the "what might be.

All our anxieties relate to time.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.