Calm My Anxious Heart Quotes

“Worry doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. We know worry is destructive, and yet we continue to be choked by anxiety over what might happen.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment with Bonus Content

“If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Isn’t it comforting to know that God knew each of us before He created us? He planned what each of us would look like, who our parents would be, if and who we would marry, and how many children we would have. Before we could know God, He cared for us. He hid each of us away as a treasure until He brought us to be. God says that He fashioned each of us with awe and wonder.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Faithfulness is God’s standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful — simply faithful.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ’s strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“The Lord is my peace. I shall not live in anxiety. He puts me under His wing of comfort and calms my spirit within me. He takes all my anxieties on Himself and helps me to focus on Him. Yes, though I walk through a time of grave uncertainties and fierce anxieties, I will not fret — for You are my peace. Your Word and Your presence calm me now. You hold my uncertainties in the palm of Your hand. You soothe my anxious mind — You smooth my wrinkled brow. Surely serenity and trust in You shall fill me all the days of my life. And I shall keep my mind stayed on You forever.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment with Bonus Content

“We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. Forgiveness breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. While dying on the cross, Jesus said, “Forgive them” — the Roman soldiers, the religious leaders, his disciples who had fled in darkness, even you and me who have denied him so many times — “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“If we haven’t chosen what we are living for, we’re living life by default, acting out the scripts handed to us by family, other people’s agendas, and the pressures of circumstances. This is not living as a woman who knows the meaning and purpose of life.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“When What Ifs come into our lives, we must ask ourselves if we’re going to judge God by the circumstances we don’t understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Confidence in God’s character enables us to throw ourselves with complete abandon into His care.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“It’s one thing to believe God can do something. It’s quite another to put yourself in a position of reliant trust. This is the distinction between intellectual belief and wholehearted faith.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into — heart, mind, and soul.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn’t make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we’re assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It’s when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God’s. He begs you to leave the future to Him and to mind the present.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“We commit sin when we worry. We do not trust God when we worry. We do not receive answers to prayer when we worry, because we are not trusting.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Instead of being anxious, we are to fix our focus on God and His righteousness.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Worry and anxiety give a small thing a big shadow, and this shadow creates problems, not just in the soul and spirit, but in the body.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Happiness is getting what we want; contentment is wanting what we get.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“The words of Scripture are plain: God hates greed. It’s ugly. It breeds other sins. It consumes and controls us. We can’t get rid of greed with a halfhearted wish or a token prayer. We must wholeheartedly come before the Lord and beg Him to remove this wretched leech with her long-reaching tentacles.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“If your treasure is on earth, your heart will be on earth also, and therefore material things will rule you.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“God cares about where your heart is, where your treasure is.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Greed builds a barrier that keeps us from becoming content with what God has given.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Going beyond forgiveness is sometimes more difficult than the initial act of forgiving.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“forgiveness is not a feeling but a secret choice of the heart.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

“Despite its evils, bitterness holds many of us captive. Forgiveness is the only escape route out of this prison.”
― Linda Dillow, Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment