Exchanging Anxiety For Joy

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. - John Calvin

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood. - Gregory Nunn

Joy Ride: Going somewhere without the kids - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The secret of praying is praying in secret. - Leonard Ravenhill

Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is. - Jessica Harrelson

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. - Aristotle

The atheist religion don't believe in the bible. - Archie Bunker

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Tennyson

Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. - Michel de Montaigne

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms. - Morgan Rhodes

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. - Jim Rohn

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. - Pope John Paul II

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever's going on. - Jon Stewart

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do. - Mark Batterson

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. - A.W. Tozer

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. - Corrie ten Boom

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. - Josh Billings

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God. - Patrick Rothfuss

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. - Timothy Keller

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson

When you carry the cross of Jesus, you will find that the cross will wind up carrying you. - Unknown

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace. - Aberjhani

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honours God. - Ravi Zacharias

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. - Robert H. Schuller

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. - Paulo Coelho

It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again. - H R L Sheppard

The longer you are on this journey of faith and understanding, you actually realize how little you do know. - Ravi Zacharias

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out. - John Fugelsang

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. - Harper Lee

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. - Will Durant

Treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. - Dwight L Moody

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them. - Peter Beinart

More than anything else, prayer enables you to see your own heart and brings you into alignment with God's heart. - Ravi Zacharias

I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. - Nicholas Sparks

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Garrison Keillor

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. - Thomas S Monson

All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'. - C S Lewis

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it. - C. JoyBell C.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.' - George Washington Carver

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle. - Neil Armstrong

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation. - Mark Batterson