Contact
Privacy
Book: Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Quotes of Book: Anxious for Nothing: Finding
TOP TAGS :friendships-and-loveunhappinessgodhoodfightshadetropicalhigh-schoolwindows

  1. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    Celebrate God's goodness. "Rejoice in the Lord always" {v. 4}. Ask God for help. "Let your requests be made known to God" {v. 6}. Leave your concerns with him. "With thanksgiving . . ." {v. 6}. Meditate on good things. "Think about the things that are good and worthy of praise" {v. 8 NCV}. Celebrate. Ask. Leave. Meditate.
    book-quote

  2. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    {God} oversees your world. He monitors your life. He doesn't need to check the doors; indeed, he is the door. Nothing will come your way apart from his permission.
    book-quote

  3. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. {Phil. 4:11–13 NIV}
    book-quote

  4. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it is a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.
    book-quote

  5. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    This much is sure: contagious calm will happen to the degree that we turn to him.
    book-quote

  6. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    Celebrate God's goodness. "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!" {Phil. 4:4}. Turn your attention away from the problem, and for a few minutes celebrate God. It does you no good to obsess yourself with your trouble. The more you stare at it, the bigger it grows. Yet the more you look to God, the quicker the problem is reduced to its proper size. This was the strategy of the psalmist. I will lift up my eyes to the hills- From whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. {Ps. 121:1–2}
    book-quote

  7. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    what you have in Christ is greater than anything you don't have in life.
    book-quote

  8. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It is the greatest of virtues. Studies have linked the emotion with a variety of positive effects. Grateful people tend to be more empathetic and forgiving of others. People who keep a gratitude journal are more likely to have a positive outlook on life. Grateful individuals demonstrate less envy, materialism, and self-centeredness. Gratitude improves self-esteem and enhances relationships, quality of sleep, and longevity.1 If it came in pill form, gratitude would be deemed the miracle cure. It's no wonder, then, that God's anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude.
    book-quote

  9. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    Be anxious for nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Is this what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense, which implies an ongoing state. It's the life of perpetual anxiety that Paul wanted to address. The Lucado Revised Translation reads, "Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst." The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional."
    book-quote

  10. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    We rest in him, find our nourishment in him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely winters of life. We linger in the abode of Christ and never leave.
    book-quote

  11. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.
    book-quote

  12. Max Lucado _ Anxious for Nothing: Finding

    This verse is a call, not to a feeling, but to a decision and a deeply rooted confidence that God exists, that he is in control, and that he is good."
    book-quote
Categories