Quotes on Fear & Anxiety
Christian quotes on Fear & Anxiety — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
That the birds of worry and grief fly over your head, you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair — that you can prevent.
Martin Luther
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
Frederick Buechner
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie ten Boom
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's sorrow, it takes away today's strength.
Corrie ten Boom
You have touched my eyelids. I sleep without worry. He who led me into this night will guide me also tomorrow.
Jochen Klepper
We do not know what is coming; but we know who is coming. That means: losing fear, because I know the final reality.
Helmut Thielicke
We must build dikes of courage against the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie ten Boom
Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther
There is no need for two to care, for God to care and the creature too.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The man who drives the plow looks neither back nor into immeasurable distances, but at the next step he must take; looking back is not a Christian thing. Leave fear, sorrow, and guilt behind. But look to the one who has given you a new beginning.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Look around and you will see distress; look within and you will be depressed; look at Jesus and you will be at rest.
Corrie ten Boom
How many of our sleepless hours might be traced to our untrusting and disordered minds. They slumber sweetly whom faith rocks to sleep. No pillow so soft as a promise; no coverlet so warm as an assured interest in Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Søren Kierkegaard
Midway upon the journey of our life, // I found myself within a dark forest, // for the straight path had been lost.
Dante Alighieri
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.
Thomas Merton
Remember this: God isn’t scared of what you’re scared of. But you don’t have to pretend like you’re not frightened. Naming your fear is part of getting through it.
Levi Lusko
Nothing that troubles his child is small to a father. The great God, without whose will no sparrow falls to the ground, will not think you presumptuous when you bring your daily troubles before him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
O Lord, in your arms I am safe. When you hold me, I have nothing to fear. I know nothing of the future, but I trust in you.
Francis of Assisi
To pray means: to set out from the anguish of the world and go to the Father.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
Yesterday is over, tomorrow is not yet here, and today the Lord helps.
Hermann von Bezzel
I am fainthearted, but with you is help; I am restless, but with you is peace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whoever wants to be a Christian should learn to believe this: that he casts his heart with its cares onto God's back; for he has a strong neck and shoulders, so that he can well carry it.
Martin Luther
It may sometimes seem to you as if you were falling into a bottomless pit, but you will never fall deeper than into the sheltering hands of God.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
The day is the boundary of our worry and toil. It is long enough to find God or to lose him, to keep faith or to fall into sin and shame. That is why God created day and night, so that we would not wander in the boundless, but already in the morning see before us the goal of the evening.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith is a refusal to panic.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
Jerry Bridges
He who sends the storm steers the vessel.
Thomas Adams
Fear is the response of the human heart when its one thing is threatened.
Augustine of Hippo
If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer – His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.
John Newton
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
Jeremy Taylor
You cannot fall deeper than into God's hand.
Gorch Fock
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
Madeleine L'Engle
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't be complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us.
Eugene Peterson
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Eugene Peterson
I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable?
Henri Nouwen
People quoted here
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Martin Luther, Frederick Buechner, Corrie ten Boom, Jochen Klepper, Helmut Thielicke, Martin Luther King Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Søren Kierkegaard, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Thomas Merton
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