Quotes about Anxiety

Hope... is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

Man's condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

Nothing steals God's glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.