Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Interpretation
Worry diminishes our ability to face challenges today without helping us with future problems.
This quote by Corrie Ten Boom emphasizes the futility of worrying about the future. Rather than preparing us for what lies ahead, worrying drains our energy and mental strength in the present, leaving us less capable of dealing with current challenges and enjoying the moment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming anxiety and living in the moment.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it.
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.
It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
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