Evangelical Anxiety Quotes

“anxiety proves to be a portal of experience through which the individual is awakened to the perils and risks, the fragility of human existence.”
― Charles Marsh, Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir – A Spiritual Story of Struggle, Transformation, and Peace

“Later I'd read that hell is falling into the place "where the fear is." The anxiety that Jesus will return and you'll be left behind and suffer eternal damnation creates a special kind of anticipatory fear. It is one that endures long after the doctrine has collapsed into doubt or disbelief. My devotion to the suffering Jesus had bled into the bliss of a deep, warm thigh. The more my gratitude swelled for the blood shed for me at Calvary, the greater my howling desire for a girl's soft summery body. Faith was fire, and fire was sex, and sex was death... as the seasons go round and round.”
― Charles Marsh, Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir – A Spiritual Story of Struggle, Transformation, and Peace