Quotes About Worry

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives—not concerns, nor tribulation, nor worries. And now we understand why our Lord so emphasized the sin of worrying. How can we dare to be so absolutely unbelieving when God totally surrounds us? To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

Jesus would never allow His disciples to be in a panic. The one great crime on the part of a disciple, according to Jesus Christ, is worry. Whenever we begin to calculate without God we commit sin. "Do not fret—it only causes harm" (Psalm 37:8).

Deliberately tell God that you will not fret about whatever concerns you. All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

It is not only wrong to worry, it is unbelief; worrying means we do not believe that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never anything but those details that worry us.

Worrying means exactly what this servant implied—"I know your intent is to leave me unprotected and vulnerable." A person who is lazy in the natural realm is always critical, saying, "I haven't had a decent chance," and someone who is lazy in the spiritual realm is critical of God. Lazy people always strike out at others in an independent way.

Worrying always results in sin.

We tend to think that a little anxiety and worry are simply an indication of how wise we really are, yet it is actually a much better indication of just how wicked we are.

His Spirit, and it works on this principle—God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry? There

God is my Father, He loves me, and I will never think of anything that He will forget, so why should I worry?

I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day.

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

I went to the Playboy Mansion one time and Smokey Robinson was there. And I was going through a divorce. And he just said, "I love you. You just keep on trying. You're a romantic. Just don't worry about it." I thought, yes, I'm a romantic. That's what it is. I'm not just making bad choices. Okay.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

As Seth Godin says, "Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance.

I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished . . . when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.

I really must stop worrying and frightening myself like this, and take things as they come, he told himself very firmly.

We are hardwired to remember negative events over positive ones, so we ruminate on our mistakes and the slights of others. Our ability to use language means that we can spend hours mentally criticizing what we did in the past or worrying about what we'll do in the future. No wonder we love dogs, who don't need meditation retreats to get over the shame of getting into the garbage last Thursday.

Holy Avon, Batman, I thought as worry relaxed into annoyance-tinged humor, I've been attacked by a multilevel marketer.

Inside the store, a young man in the sadly appropriate red Target shirt walked very slowly to the locked door that was all that protected him from the horde. "He's going to die." Jesse sounded a little worried. The crowd started undulating, like a Chinese New Year dragon, as he reached up and slowly turned the key.

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, "And to think I was always worried that you didn't have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would've prepared one in some way. This is not the case.

If you find that you are a worrier, you might want to consider that the more you worry about each specific thing, the more likely you'll bring it into reality.

Men don't worry a lot – not nearly so much as the women. Real bad worriers women are, and wives are the worst of the lot. One of the things that put me off marrying was hearing the way they go on. If it isn't their husbands it's their children, and if it isn't their children it's their clothes, or their hens, or their cats, or their dogs, or what their neighbours think.

Because it can take two to even six years for a man to reach his PSA nadir after radiation, this initial "false rise" in PSA level after the hormonal therapy ends might lead to needless worry from a wrongful diagnosis