Anxiety

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish proverbs

The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.