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...

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.

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...

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...

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.

Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

A small step toward recovery is giant progress.

A finger beckons.My choice is to turn away.It is a mistake.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God’s work to take care.

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture,...

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it’s a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be...

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

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...