Quotes about Stress
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Worry divides the mind.
— Max Lucado
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
— Max Lucado
Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrow's problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.
— Max Lucado
That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.
— Max Lucado
Read Psalm 32:3—4 again. Can you relate? Are your anxiety and fear taking a toll on you physically? Explain.
— Max Lucado
Anxiety increases as perceived control diminishes.
— Max Lucado
We want certainty, but the only certainty is the lack thereof. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot.
— Max Lucado
The burlap bag of worry. Cumbersome. Chunky. Unattractive. Scratchy. Hard to get a handle on. Irritating to carry and impossible to give away. No one wants your worries.
— Max Lucado
Writings from Max Lucado Our world is stressed. Jesus gets that. He faced the issues we face and some far more severe than we ever will. He taught how to deal with the challenges of life. And the key to what he taught is to believe God cares for you.
— Max Lucado
Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.
— Max Lucado
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
— Max Lucado