Running Scared Quotes

“When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

“Control and certainty are myths.”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

“others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols can’t deliver on their promises. In the Old Testament, the choice before”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

“Can you see how worries multiply? Suddenly you are a gifted prophet”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

“God does not forgive you based on the quality of your confession or your resolve to be a better person. But you keep thinking otherwise. Your standard is what you would do to someone like yourself, and chances are that you would not let the incident pass quickly. God, however, forgives, for his own name's sake. "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more" (Isa. 43:25).”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

“Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

“knew something about prayer, asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1). Here is where prayer really”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest