What should you pray about? Everything! Here's a simple rule: If it's worth worrying about, then it is worth praying about. If you prayed as much as you worry, you would have a whole lot less to worry about.

Nerves are God's gift to you, reminding you that your life is not passing you by, Make friend with the butterflies. Welcome them when they come, revel in them, enjoy them, and if they go away, do whatever it takes to put yourself in a position where they return. Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like life is passing you by.

You start with your 1 and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. When you are constantly judging what you're doing, you aren't here. You aren't present. You are standing outside of your life, looking in, observing. The time for judgement will come at some point, but in the moment, you have only the 1. And then the 2. And then the 3...

Nerves are God's gift to you, reminding you that your life is not passing you by. Make friends with the butterflies.

Instead of speculating about the end times and writing terrible novels about people being left behind and preaching ridiculous sermons connecting Iran to the book of Daniel, it's better if people agree that we aren't going to worry about what we can't control and we are going to become far more intentional about what we can control—loving our neighbor, becoming people of character and integrity, taking better care of the earth.

You embrace your impotence, your powerlessness, your lack of control over the outcomes—you make peace with all that you can't do, with your limits, with all the people you can't help.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.

Then if you don't mind a suggestion—plan what you will do, and then set it aside until tomorrow," Cole said. "You tend to worry things in circles. Try to worry in a straight line.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. It's not about sitting back and waiting for things to happen. It's a mindful trust and complete collaboration with what is present here and now.