Spiritual Anxiety Quotes

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

I'm obviously slightly ill, because there is a burning desire to be perfect in me. It's probably the Catholic, or the ex-Catholic in me.

Those who worship God only, can get rid of anxiety of mind; others cannot.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.

No! I don’t want to Ouija, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see one tarot card or rune stone I’ll yack cupcake all over you. (Grace)

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.