quotations about worry & worrying
Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend.... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear.
JOHN ORTBERG, JR.
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The Me I Want to Be
Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.
GERALD LAWSON SITTSER
The Will of God As a Way of Life
The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Beyond Positive Thinking
The first thing you have to realize about worrying is that it is a choice, not an inevitability. Some people think that worry comes naturally when you have problems. That's not true. You worry because you choose to be worried.
ANTHONY JOSHUA
Overcoming Anxiety: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Worrying is similar to purchasing ulcers on credit.
GREG REYNOLDS
"Issues of Faith: No worries when experiencing God's Peace", Peninsula Daily News, March 3, 2017
The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.
ERIC RASSIN
Thought Suppression
Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN
What is Worth While?
The cause of worry is life: its cure is death.
CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY
Worry: The Disease of the Age
People who believe that worry is uncontrollable rarely get the signal to stop worrying.
BRUCE FERNIE & GABRIELLE MURPHY
Coping Better with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/myalgic Encephalomyelitis
I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay."
HARRY S. TRUMAN
attributed, Mr. President
The longer I have followed Jesus, the more I have experienced him lifting worry's weight from my soul. Increasingly, I view worry as a cue to pray, choosing to trust my Heavenly Father and to thank him.
GREG REYNOLDS
"Issues of Faith: No worries when experiencing God's Peace", Peninsula Daily News, March 3, 2017
Worry is a fidgety girl who can't do things right. In the morning she dresses herself but the clothes don't fit. Worry is slim. Worry is fat. Worry is never what she wants to be.
EILEEN CURTEIS
Reiki: A Spiritual Doorway to Natural Healing
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
JEAN ANOUILH
The Rehearsal
No amount of worrying is going to change the situation so it is not worth your time.
TANAAZ CHUBB
"7 Easy Ways To Make Your Life Less Stressful", Huffington Post, March 31, 2017
Worrying ... is always useless. It is a form of inner considering--i.e. of identifying. It is a continual mixing up of negative imagination with a few facts and so makes only wrong connections.
MAURICE NICOLL
Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
Worry is our happiness-eater.
NIKKI GEMMELL
"Is it worth the worry?", The Australian, March 4, 2017
Worry-free living can be ours. Worry is merely an option. Take a lesson from our children. Toss your worries onto your Father. Then go outside and play.
RICK BROWN
"Let Jesus help you live worry free", Cypress Creek Mirror, February 17, 2016
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
A little worrying, like a little fear, is natural and healthy. It is what keeps us following basic traffic laws, not putting our hand on a hot burner, or playing baseball with a glass jar. But just like being consumed with fear can paralyze you, so can worrying non-stop. The emotions are from different spectrums of the rainbow but they both end up doing the same things -- making you paranoid, tepid, and unable to savor life that is in front of you.
DENNIS WYATT
"Worrying Half Your Life Away", The Ceres Courier, February 10, 2016
What worries you masters you.
HADDON W. ROBINSON
attributed, Drawing Closer, Growing Stronger: Making the Most of Your Walk with God