You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
Growth can be painful, change can be painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it only empties today of its strengths.
Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.
The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.
You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
Satan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ.