Quotes About Fretting

The trouble is we can't see the plan, and so we go fretting because it doesn't fit our ideas.

it not strange that they should form this habit of anticipating evils that will probably never come, when they know that anxiety and fretting will not only rob them of peace of mind and strength and ability to do their work, but also of precious years of life?

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.

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. Fretting rises from our determination to have our own way. Our Lord never worried and was never anxious, because His purpose was never to accomplish His own plans but to fulfill God's plans.

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

First of all, one is either a panicker or one isn't, and the occasion of being lost is no time to start fretting about a flaw in one's character. My own theory holds that it is best, if one is a panicker, to get the panic out of the system as quickly as possible

It's hard to care about people. You end up fretting all the time and feeling helpless, hoping they'll live forever. Only no one does." "Yes, that's love for you.

Trust does not cancel our mind but circumscribes it and tames it—and so we do not succumb to fretting or anxious thoughts of being unsure.