Quotes about Insecurity

Caution: If you're a person who will one day mentor others, I have a sobering warning. If your ego hasn't been annihilated by the cross of Jesus Christ, you will end up becoming a Saul in the lives of those who are just as (or more) gifted than you are. And when God begins to elevate them in His service, you will go insane.

One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.

and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.