Quotes About Anxiety

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It's not the destination, but the trip that they dread.

Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it easier than our forefathers, we have more uneasiness. Though we have less real cause for anxiety than our predecessors, we are inwardly more anxious.

Historians will probably call our era "the age of anxiety." Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

God's star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man's synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world's goods.

There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.

Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening. Take one day at a time. Today, after all, is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

Much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, and meaninglessness have gripped much of the world—and even the church . . . By contrast, our Pilgrim forebears stand as shining examples of men who were narrow but deep, certain of what they believed, unswerving in their loyalty, and passionately dedicated to the God they trusted, and for whom they would willingly have died.

Memorizing the Bible is most important. "Thinking God's thoughts" will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.

Whatever is worrying you right now, give it to Jesus and trust Him to take care of it. Let His peace replace your worry.

Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening [now] . . . Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

Worry is an old man with a bent head, carrying a load of feathers he thinks is lead.

down and was rubbing his hands

The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.