It is not hard work that drains off energy but emotional upheaval

The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.

All men are babies, when you come to the bottom of them. Why, I've handled some of the toughest customers as ever went down Tevershall pit. But let anything ail them so that you have to do for them, and they're babies, just big babies. Oh, there's not much difference in men!

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

We cannot be pepped up and enthusiastic about doing something exciting and feel dragged down by worry at the very same time. One kind of emotion drives out the other.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch.