Quotes about Overwhelm

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

The first, stress, gets a stranglehold on us when we move through life feeling like everything (every decision, every answer, every provision, every protection) rests on our shoulders.

And what we think about can consume us if

Unrealistic demands lead to undercurrents of failure.

Few things can mess you up as badly as trying to do your best. For the tender heart, the earnest heart, it is so discouraging to give all you have trying to do what you think Jesus would have you do, and find yourself falling short, sabotaging your own efforts at every turn. Discouragement and shame settle in like a long Seattle rain. And this is what most Christians experience as the Christian life: Try harder; feel worse.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

I had uncontrollable panic attacks and paralysing negative thoughts about anything and everything.

If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.