fashioned for faith

"I am inwardly fashioned for faith, 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 the oil.

I live better by faith and confidence than by fear, 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 breathe freely--these are my native air."

- E. Stanley Jones