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Tag: anxiety

  • Anxiety grows best

    Anxiety grows best in the soil of unbelief. It withers in contact with faith. Michael ReevesClick to TweetFrom the book “Rejoice and Tremble” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • The humble are care free

    The humble are care free. Where there is worry, anxiety, anxiousness there is pride. The root of worry and anxiety is self-sufficiency. God gives grace to those who humble themselves and cast each and every care on him. The effect of this act is the weakening of pride and the experience of peace and joy.…

  • Misfortunes

    “My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” Michel De MontaigneClick to Tweet

  • Materialism

    Materialism

    The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day. Dietrich BonhoefferClick to Tweet

  • Anxiety

    Anxiety is one of our modern plagues. Its effects are visible everywhere, interfering with our happiness and our ability to live productively. Anxiety limits our connections with other people, saps our energy, reduces our focus and our skillfulness and undermines our health. (Psychology Today,. ‘Anxiety: A Modern Plague’. N.p., 2015. Web. 10 Nov. 2015. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/healing-possibility/201111/anxiety-modern-plague)…

  • Taking anxiety on yourself

    You can be quite a good Christian and even build a great ministry, and still not be able to trust fully in the loving Father to care for your needs; you end up taking all the responsibility and anxiety upon yourself. Jack Frost Click to Tweet

  • A doctor examined his patient

    A doctor examined his patient and concluded that nothing physical was wrong with him. He said, “You probably have some business or social problem that you should talk over with a good counselor. I dealt with a case very similar to yours only a few weeks ago. This patient of mine had a $5,000 debt…

  • A concerned customer asked his

    A concerned customer asked his stock broker if the recent market decline and volitility worried him. The broker told him that he has been sleeping like a baby. "Really?!?" replied the customer. "Absolutely," said the broker, "I sleep for about an hour, wake up, and then cry for about an hour." Click to Tweet

  • Fresh out of business school,

    Fresh out of business school, a young man answered a want ad for an accountant. Now he was being interviewed by a very nervous man who ran a small business that he had started himself. "I need someone with an accounting degree," the man said. "But mainly, I’m looking for someone to do my worrying…

  • John Stott has said, "To

    John Stott has said, "To become preoccupied with material things in such a way that they engross our attention, absorb our energy and burden us with anxiety is incompatible with both Christian faith and common sense. It is distrustful of our heavenly Father, and it is frankly stupid. This is what pagans do; but it…