Quotes about Anxiety

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

Cato Lose not a thought on me, I'm out of danger. Heaven will not leave me in the victor's hand. Caesar shall never say, I conquered Cato. But, oh! my friends, your safety fills my heart With anxious thoughts: a thousand secret terrors 115 Rise in my soul: how shall I save my friends! 'Tis now, O Caesar, I begin to fear thee.

the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes

Does anyone else find this shit completely terrifying

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Inappropriate, anxiety-driven, fear-driven work would only interfere with and distract from what God was already doing. My "work" assignment was to pay more attention to what God does than what I do, and then to find, and guide others to find, the daily, weekly, yearly rhythms that would get this awareness into our bones. Holy Saturday for a start. And then Sabbath keeping. Staying in touch with people in despair, knowing them by name, and waiting for resurrection.

Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Worry leads to gray hair

Creativity is normal for any believer who is not influenced by anxiety.