Quotes about Anxiety

I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.

Worry implies that we don't quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives.

The things we worry about the most are the hints we trust God with the least.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Worry divides the mind.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.

Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrow's problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.

That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear