And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.

Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

Relax. No one else knows what they're doing either.

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken—only felt and endured.

When we forget god - He remembers us

It was such a nice feeling to know that someone was looking after you... that someone wanted you... that you were important to someone.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine