Worry is defined as thinking about future events in a way that leaves you feeling anxious or apprehensive. According to Dr. Charles Mayo, worry affects circulation, the heart and glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects health.
These quotes will motivate you to kick the worry habit.
“It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.”
Joel Osteen
”Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.”
Beth Moore
“No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we are not praying. When we pray, we are not worrying.”
Max Lucado
“Don’t believe every worried thought that you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.”
Renee Jain
“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.”
Psalm 55:22
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[?”
Matthew 6:25-27
“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it never gets you anywhere.”
Erma Bombeck
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
Corrie Ten Boom
“Pray, and let God worry.”
Martin Luther
“We often can’t see what God is doing in our lives, but God clearly sees the whole picture and his plan for us.”
Tony Dungy
“Thinking about what you don’t want to happen increases the odds that it will.”
Robert Kriegel
“Ain’t no use putting up your umbrella til it rains.”
Alice Caldwell Rice
“Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.”
Mary C. Crowley
“Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination.”
Ed Foreman
“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
Arthur Somers Roche
“You do not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get stomach ulcers from what is eating you.”
Dr. Joseph F. Montagne
“My life has been full of terrible misfortune most of which never happened.”
Montaigne
“There isn’t enough room in your mind for both worry and faith. You must decide which one will live there.”
SI Robertson
“Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough.”
Francis Chan
“Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.”
Lee Roberson
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
Corrie Ten Boom
“What is needed for happy effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord’s hand, and leave it there. Do not take it to Him in prayer, saying, “Lord, guide me, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, arrange for me,” and then arise from your knees, and take the burden all back, and try to guide and arrange for yourself. Leave it with the Lord, and remember that what you trust to Him you must not worry over nor feel anxious about. Trust and worry cannot go together.”
Hannah Whitall Smith
“Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.“
Josh McDowell
“It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery, it’s the friction.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday’s regrets and tomorrow’s worries.”
Warren Wiersbe
“Worrying is praying for things you don’t want.”
Donna Stoneham
“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
George Washington
“For some reason, we think of doubt and worry as “small” sins. But when a Christian displays unbelief…or an inability to cope with life, he is saying to the world, “My God cannot be trusted,” and that kind of disrespect makes one guilty of a fundamental error, the heinous sin of dishonoring God. That is no small sin.”
John MacArthur
“While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.”
Rick Warren
“Worry, by nature, is the product of a lack of faith and trust in God.”
John MacArthur
“Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.”
Elisabeth Elliot
“Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.”
Hannah Whitall Smith
“You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?”
Hannah Whitall Smith
“It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.”
George Macdonald
“And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
Matthew 6:27-28
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”
John 14:1-3
“And he said to them, ‘Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
Luke 24:38-39
“Say to those who have an anxious heart, ‘Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.’”
Isaiah 35:4
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
John 14:27
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
Matthew 6:25-26
“In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.”
Psalm 18:6
“But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.”
Psalm 59:16
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:34
“For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law, but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.”
2 Chronicles 15:3-4
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7
“But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.”
Luke 12:28-30
“Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
Psalm 118:5-6
“So, here are all the benefits of worrying: none; nothing; notta one. “
Byron Pulsifer
“Because God created you and Christ has made you acceptable, don’t worry about what other people say about you. God is with you and he is for you. God will never leave you.”
Rick Warren
“Worrying is a waste of time; it changes nothing. It will only create stress, which can have major effects on your health.”
Robert Washington
“Worries are wasted emotions, and remember that circumstances have no emotional component unless you give it to them.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”
Rick Warren
“What would your life look like if you let go of some of your biggest distractions, the often meaningless worries and stresses that take your attention, and actually put more focus on the people and things that are most important to you?”
Mike Robbins
“One of the great tragedies of our society, the most affluent in human history, is that the majority of people worry about money most of the time.”
Brian Tracy
“Worry erodes the psychic, causes unwanted emotional turmoil, and depletes the body through lack of sleep or poor eating habits. It only leads to further and further despair.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“‘Worry’ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
Dwight Eisenhower
“You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.”
Author Unknown
“It’s time to let God’s love cover all things in your life. All secrets. All hurts. All hours of evil, minutes of worry.”
Max Lucado
“If you can control your thoughts, especially the things that you worry about, I guarantee you that you will lessen your stress level by 50-80%.”
Mike Mraz
“Hurry and worry are sisters, and often go along hand in hand with each other.”
Pauline Creeden
“I should not fret and worry about important decisions – I should let Him make them for me. Do not worry about tomorrow – He is the God of tomorrow, He sees the end from the beginning.”
Billy Graham
“Worrying about other people’s problems or events that you cannot control is a waste of mental energy.”
Brian Night
“The basic secret of overcoming worry is the substitution of faith for fear as your dominant mental attitude.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Once I was able to tackle my worry problems, my life improved considerably. I found I was able to function at a much higher level. My decision-making was much improved. Further, I found that I had energy levels just like when I was a child. I felt enthused to try out new things and go to different places.”
Michael Hilton
“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”
Henry Ford
“When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static.”
Harold B. Walker