Each morning, when we wake—if we wake—we pick up whatever it is we've been given to carry for that day, with the sweet Lord Jesus in the yoke beside us to tote the load. Each night we lay it down, giving it into God's hands. If it's still there in the morning, we pick it up and begin again. If the burden is gone or if there is something different, we know where to start.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess, or perversion of mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Be always busy.

Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease;

No man can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue. Worry is not merely useless, it is folly, for it defeats that power and intelligence which is otherwise equal to the task.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.