Quotes about Insecurity

The big lesson I learned from wrestling with my own curveballs is how deeply my faith in God had been cemented in fear—which is to say, how I viewed God as very much antagonistic toward me. And so any thought on my part of listening to my experiences and interrogating my inherited faith—to inspect its boundaries let alone climb over its walls—was seen as a crisis that had to be averted or at least resolved immediately.

But a faith that requires us to hold on to what we "know" becomes, we eventually discover, inadequate for handling the peaks and valleys of our humanity. It's also exhausting to try to hold it all together as it once was.

The root of the conflict for many Christians is not scientific or even theological, but group identity and fear of losing what it offers.

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

When Saul saw that David was very successful, he was afraid of him.

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.