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Anxious Thoughts Quotes

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

Saint Francis de Sales
Father, Heart, Anxious Thoughts

Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.

Thomas Troward
Mean, Anxious Thoughts, Accomplishment
Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Hannah Whitall Smith
Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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.

Bruno Bettelheim
Children, Anxious Thoughts, Giving

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden
Happiness, Men, Anxious Thoughts

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

Guy Finley
Believe, Order, Anxious Thoughts
Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.110, BookBaby

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.

Alexander MacLaren
Ocean, Dark, Anxious Thoughts
Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.289

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

William John Locke
Anxious Thoughts, Human Nature, Advertisements
William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition

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