Max Lucado Quotes About Worry

Quotes about: Worry

• No one can pray and worry at the same time.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Worry, Max

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

• When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

  Max Lucado

  Faith, Forgiveness, God

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.640, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

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  God, Faith, Christian

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

• How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

  Max Lucado

  Jobs, Men, Years

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

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  Heart, Worry, Joy

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Worry divides the mind.

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  Worry, Mind, Divides

  Max Lucado (2013). “Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

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  Light, Giving, Worry

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

  Max Lucado

  Worry, Tomorrow, Changed

• Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

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  Writing, Yesterday, Worry

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jan 29, 2010

• No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.

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  Jesus, Water, Worry

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jun 26, 2015

• Seek first the kingdom of wealth and you'll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health and you'll sweat every blemish and bump. Seek first the kingdom of popularity, and you'll relive every conflict. Seek first the kingdom of safety, and you'll jump at every crack of the twig. But seek first His kingdom and you will find it. On that, we can depend and never worry.

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  Sweat, Safety, Worry

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

• No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

• 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.

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  People, Worry, Way

• Worry is anti-trust. If you're worried, you don't trust something: your kids, their friends, strangers, the church, even God. Can He take care of your children? Certainly. Jesus says, 'I tell you, stop being anxious and worried about your life.' Pretty blunt. Stop it! Easier said than done, huh? Worry tests your trust, so hand your children to God and let Him babysit your babies when you're not around. He's pretty good at it!

  Max Lucado

  Baby, Jesus, Children

• Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

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  Positive, Uplifting, Worry

  Max Lucado (2012). “Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

• It's one thing for me to tell people not to worry. It's another thing entirely to quote Matthew 6, where Jesus says, "Why do you worry? The birds of the air, the flowers of the field..." He says, "I tell you, do not worry."

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Flower, Air

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• We've been taught that the Christian life is a life of peace, and when we don't have peace, we assume the problem lies within us. Not only do we feel anxious, but we also feel guilty about our anxiety! The result is a downward spiral of worry, guilt, worry, guilt.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Lying, Worry

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Fall, People

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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