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Quotes About Tranquility

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
~ Epictetus
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
~ Francois Fenelon
Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?
~ Swami Vivekananda
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.
~ Joyce Meyer
When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)
~ Charles R. Swindoll
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
~ A. R. Ammons
Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!
~ Valerie June
A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.
~ Dorotheus of Gaza
God gives quietness at last.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Sleep in the bliss of God.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.
~ Rajneesh
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
~ Bill Vaughan
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
~ Brother Lawrence
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
~ Ann Voskamp
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
~ Arnold Bennett
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.
~ Rumi
Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
~ Patti Smith
Heaven is where God dwells. It is a specific place; a place of unparalleled tranquility and beauty. It includes the new heaven and new earth.
~ Paul P. Enns
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I'm not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
~ Orhan Pamuk
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
~ Francis Bacon
I don't have that addictive, "What's going on?" feeling anymore, thank god.
~ Jen Kirkman
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.
~ John Keats