Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
Max LucadoRead
You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Worrying is often seen as a permanent state, but it can be alleviated by connecting with a higher power.
In this quote, Max Lucado suggests that individuals often accept worry as an inherent part of their lives, but this mindset need not define their existence. By engaging deeply with one's spirituality or faith, one can find peace and diminish the grip of anxiety, demonstrating that personal belief can lead to inner tranquility.
Themes
WorryFaithPeaceAnxietySpirituality
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared in a motivational speech to encourage those struggling with anxiety.
More from Max Lucado
All quotes →When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
Max LucadoRead
There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.
Max LucadoRead
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
Max LucadoRead
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
Max LucadoRead
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
Max LucadoRead
Similar quotes
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.
Khaled HosseiniRead
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
Johann ArndtRead
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.
Cynthia OzickRead
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Read
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
LaoziRead
Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.
Deepak ChopraRead