Quotes About Anxiety

Instead of being anxious, we are to fix our focus on God and His righteousness.

We commit sin when we worry. We do not trust God when we worry. We do not receive answers to prayer when we worry, because we are not trusting.

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Waiting for the What Ifs of life, for what might happen, causes the sturdiest of hearts to be anxious.

You only fear something that hasn't happened. Once it has happened, all you can do is deal with it.

We rattled on, away from Les Mille, and we racked our brains as to where they could be taking us. To the Pyrenees? To one of the camps in the East Pyrenees? Or farther away toward the west? Maybe to Gurs, where our wives were?

An actual misfortune is almost always less painful to him than his fear of it, just as, of course, his actual experience of joys is almost always less stirring than his hopes and anticipations of them.

why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?

Sometimes fear is like that: It leaves you with nothing but the desire for it to be done.

Plans give you a list of tasks to keep you from drowning in your own fear. Plans give you a feeling of control, even if it's just an illusion at the time.

Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D.

She walked the edge of the anxiety attack, feeling the shakes and knowing that she either found solid footing now or plunged into the abyss.

I'm filled with the age-old terror of making a mistake, looking foolish. How is it we all leave high school, but high school never leaves us? Bob

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

Fear trumps empathy.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.