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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don’t believe that God will get it right.

Worry is like sitting in a rocking chair, rocking back and forth; it’s always in motion and it keeps you busy, but it never gets you anywhere.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Pray, and let God worry.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. if something is wrong, fix it if you can. but train yourself not to worry: worry never fixes anything.

What you call “worry” . . . I call “preparation.”

I would even argue that the vast majority of the stress we experience is self-induced. That is, we feel stress when there is no real external threat to us, only some challenged belief, value, or expec...

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

What worries you, masters you.

Worrying, then, is the act of putting our expectation and hope into a distressing possibility rather than putting our faith in a good God.

I ask people to anonymously write their worries on sticky notes. We post them to a wall and look at them together. Participants are often surprised by the raw honesty of what is shared and the private...

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

I love social media, but it really does provide worry fuel for a lot of people.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

My grandfather was a juggler in a Russian circus. He was able to worry about six things at once.

Blessed are we who come to you  just as we are,  asking to be gathered, hidden, and held,  shielded for a time  from things too hard for us,  too heavy to hold for this long.  God, give us...

God ~ Father, Son and Holy Spirit: Your grace welcomes us. Your faithfulness gives us hope. Your love invites us to come as we are—not as we think we ought to be, nor, even, as we want to be. While s...

For the most part, when we think of saints or heroes of the faith, we think of people who are altogether different than we are. They seem to embody a quality of communion with God that is impossible f...

The result of worrying about the future is that you are crippling yourself in the present.

And that’s the thing about worrying, it does nothing to prevent bad things from happening. Worrying does not affect the outcome of a situation, it doesn’t make adverse events less likely to occur, it ...

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

More enslaving than our occupations, however, are our preoccupations. To be pre-occupied means to fill our time and place long before we are there. This is worrying in the more specific sense of the w...

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It...

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashio...

The Land of What-Ifs is a tempting place to dwell. It is also a dangerous place to be. And chances are, if you flipped to this page, you’re stepping foot into its territory. Before you even pull the c...

Jesus says, “Therefore I tell you, Do not be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body mo...