Anxious for Nothing Quotes

“The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“That’s why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can’t take control, because control is not ours to take.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Today, I will live today. Yesterday has passed. Tomorrow is not yet. I’m left with today. So, today, I will live today. Relive yesterday? No. I will learn from it. I will seek mercy for it. I will take joy in it. But I won’t live in it. The sun has set on yesterday. The sun has yet to rise on tomorrow. Worry about the future? To what gain? It deserves a glance, nothing more. I can’t change tomorrow until tomorrow. Today, I will live today. I will face today’s challenges with today’s strength. I will dance today’s waltz with today’s music. I will celebrate today’s opportunities with today’s hope. Today.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“This verse is a call, not to a feeling, but to a decision and a deeply rooted confidence that God exists, that he is in control, and that he is good.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“The path to peace is paved with prayer.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (Phil. 4:11–13 NIV)”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Be anxious for nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Is this what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense, which implies an ongoing state. It's the life of perpetual anxiety that Paul wanted to address. The Lucado Revised Translation reads, "Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst." The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life” (Prov. 4:23 NCV). Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“The next time you fear the future, rejoice in the Lord’s sovereignty. Rejoice in what he has accomplished. Rejoice that he is able to do what you cannot do. Fill your mind with thoughts of God.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It is the greatest of virtues. Studies have linked the emotion with a variety of positive effects. Grateful people tend to be more empathetic and forgiving of others. People who keep a gratitude journal are more likely to have a positive outlook on life. Grateful individuals demonstrate less envy, materialism, and self-centeredness. Gratitude improves self-esteem and enhances relationships, quality of sleep, and longevity.1 If it came in pill form, gratitude would be deemed the miracle cure. It’s no wonder, then, that God’s anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“We rest in him, find our nourishment in him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely winters of life. We linger in the abode of Christ and never leave.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“In our parents’ day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it is a matter of minutes. We’ve barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Belief always precedes behavior. For this reason the apostle Paul in each of his epistles addressed convictions before he addressed actions. To change the way a person responds to life, change what a person believes about life.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“As you sense anxiety welling up inside you, cast it in the direction of Christ. Do so specifically and immediately.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Find a promise that fits your problem, and build your prayer around it.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“A happy saint is one who is at the same time aware of the severity of sin and the immensity of grace.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Do not meditate on the mess.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“When a father leads his four-year-old son down a crowded street, he takes him by the hand and says, “Hold on to me.” He doesn’t say, “Memorize the map” or “Take your chances dodging the traffic” or “Let’s see if you can find your way home.” The good father gives the child one responsibility: “Hold on to my hand.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“what you have in Christ is greater than anything you don’t have in life.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Celebrate God’s goodness. “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” (Phil. 4:4). Turn your attention away from the problem, and for a few minutes celebrate God. It does you no good to obsess yourself with your trouble. The more you stare at it, the bigger it grows. Yet the more you look to God, the quicker the problem is reduced to its proper size. This was the strategy of the psalmist. I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. (Ps. 121:1–2)”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“This much is sure: contagious calm will happen to the degree that we turn to him.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Do not meditate on the mess. You gain nothing by setting your eyes on the problem. You gain everything by setting your eyes on the Lord.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“receive God’s rebuke. He corrects those he loves, and he loves you. So stand corrected. Confess your sin and resolve to do better. Be wiser next time. Learn from your poor choice. But don’t despair.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“You have the living presence of Jesus within you. In Christ you have everything.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“sentence: what you have in Christ is greater than anything you don’t have in life.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“He focused on a different list. He had eternal life. He had the love of God. He had forgiveness of sins. He had the surety of salvation. He had Christ, and Christ was enough. What he had in Christ was far greater than what he didn’t have in life.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“There will always be a newer car to buy or a nicer dress to purchase. And since the race is unwinnable, you are setting yourself up for anxiety. Define yourself by stuff, and you’ll feel good when you have a lot, and you’ll feel bad when you don’t. The cycle is predictable. You assume, If I get a car, I’ll be happy. You get the car, but the car wears out. You look for joy elsewhere. If I get married, I’ll be happy. So you get married, but your spouse cannot deliver. If we can have a baby… If I get the new job… If I can retire… In each case joy comes, then diminishes. By the time you reach old age, you have ridden a roller coaster of hope and disappointment.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“Before you lash out in fear, look up in faith.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“we have a choice. We can wear our hurt or wear our hope. We can outfit ourselves in our misfortune, or we can clothe ourselves in God’s providence. We can cave in to the pandemonium of life, or we can lean into the perfect plan of God.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World