Browsing Topic Best Anxious Thoughts Quotes

You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever–black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because–despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content–these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.

Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?