Max Lucado Quotes

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

Trust in God and destroy fear, which paralyzes all efforts to succeed and attracts the very thing you fear.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.' I'm not saying I don't have problems or that I don't worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don't want that!

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.

I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives

Where there is fear there is no religion.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, he asks us to be strong and take courage.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.