Quotes about Insecurity
Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
— AW Tozer
Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become.
— Max Lucado
God will do that for you. Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest.
— Max Lucado
Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest.
— Max Lucado
Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.
— Max Lucado
The unquestioning acceptance by my peers had dislodged the familiar insecurity.
— Maya Angelou
In later years I asked her if she loved me and she brushed me off with; God is love. Just worry about whether you're being a good girl, then He will love you.
— Maya Angelou
The less good stuff we find in ourselves, the more we seek it in others.
— Melody Beattie
Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves instead of God.
— Beth Moore
The doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. James 1:6—7
— Beth Moore
Forgive me for my unbelief [in myself]. If I realized how valuable I am, my insatiable need for affirmation would be quieted. Forgive me for being such a perfectionist that I resist doing something good out of fear that it won't be great.
— Beth Moore
It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
— Steven Pressfield