Quotes about Anxiety
The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.
— Paul Tillich
Reasoning as a limited cognitive function, detached from the personal center, never could create courage. One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.
— Paul Tillich
Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.
— Paul Tillich
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (190)
— Paul Tillich
Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No." Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
— Paul Tillich
A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.
— Paulo Coelho
Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.
— Perry Stone
Prophetic ministers and believers in Christ's return are continually mocked as doom and gloom prognosticators whose messages only spread fear and anxiety.
— Perry Stone
Fear will paralyze your confidence in God's willingness to be your provider and answer your prayers.
— Perry Stone
What I discovered, and what I want to pass along to you in this book, is that this view of the Bible does not come from the Bible but from an anxiety over protecting the Bible and so regulating the faith of those who read it.
— Peter Enns
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
— Genesis 32:7
The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
— Exodus 15:14