Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won’t spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a...

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than...

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

We periodically return to the throne of God for a transfusion of reality. It helps us recall that the redemption of mankind doesn’t depend on us. Sometimes we lose sight of that. A visit back...

The threat of a strike is certainly going to raise a lot of anxiety for Ottawa residents.

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down… I ghosted between islands of anxiety… a fatigue that dulled my...

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper’s aim.

My duty is to pray. I know God hears my prayers.

I haven’t told you that today, Meg, because I don’t know.

This is where I go, when I go:It’s a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.I’m...

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

The Fall will always be yours and mine…

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

chocolate frogs” from Harry Potter.

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you...

The apprehension of this blessed truth (God’s faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of...

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!

I was beginning to realize that what I wanted was the noise of people living near me, but not near enough to cause any inaudible noises to show up because I knew that those sorts...

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don’t see the full picture. That’s the point. That’s what faith is. You can’t see...

Sloth may disguise itself as “conscientious work” and meet with various forms of public approval or success. But work that is not motivated by love for the life of the community, beyond the temporal and...

When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth....

You said just now, “Don’t be so ashamed of yourself, because that’s the root of your trouble”––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I...

It’s been my experience that people always assume that generalized anxiety disorder is preferable to social anxiety disorder, because it sounds more vague and unthreatening, but those people are totally wrong. For me, having generalized...

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren’t ready, then you weren’t ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Anxiously attached Codependents demonstrate the ability to maximize the attention they get from their partner, regardless of whether it is positive or negative (i.e., “I’d rather be screamed at than ignored”). Manipulation is used to...

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

It’s simple,’ Kat told them. ‘You bombard them with images of what they ought to be, and you make them feel grotty for being the way they are. You’re working with the gap between reality...

It?s the normal pressure or anxiety to perform well which is good. We know Pakistan?s recent performance against us has been good. But statistics don?t count much as in one-day cricket the team that performs...

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled....

Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we...

Do we think we know enough to chart where we are on the arc of our lives? Forgive us, Father, for the arrogance of such projections. What do they gain us? If we project nothing...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...

Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.

I always fill the chat box, almost every day, and end up deleting my heart.