Quotes About Serenity

Bless something small but infinite and quiet.

Bless something small but infinite and quiet. — Robert Creeley, from "A Prayer," The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975 . (University of California Press; 2nd ed. edition October 23, 2006)

The sun sank like a dull-glowing copper ball into a lake of fire. The blue of the sea merged with the blue of the sky, and both turned to soft dark velvet, clustered with stars and the mirrors of stars.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

My Cup" They tell me I am going to die. Why don't I seem to care? My cup is full. Let it spill

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Here are your waters and your watering place.Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

sunset falls just right behind the sea, and not just when we look into the eyes of a newborn. The

Sweet are the thoughts that favour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown... Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss... Obscurèd life sets down a type of bliss, A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

At last they saw what Strike had felt the need to see: a wide expanse of flat ocean, the color of chalcedony, beneath a periwinkle sky.

For a minute he looked out upon the ghostly park and was transfixed by the effect of the rising sun on leafy branches rising from the sea of vapor. You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.

They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content;The quiet mind is richer than a crown.

A Modern Prayer Dear God, help me to slow down notrushpasteverythingthatisimportanttodayamen. Robert Holden

There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.

They live in Tranquillity which is not disturb'd by the Inequality of Condition.

And she said, "It is well." – 2 Kings 4:23

Jesus once told us to find a quiet room of the house and retire there for regular private prayer (Matt. 6:6), and He Himself arose early in the morning for a time of communion with the Father before the day began (Mark 1:35). Our daily "quiet time" is the key to Christian serenity and sanctity. As we open our Bibles and our prayer notebooks in His presence, we can pray with Samuel, who said, "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening" (1 Sam. 3:9 NIV).

Be seriously cheerful, and cheerfully serious. Religion was never design'd to make our pleasures less. —Isaac Watts

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

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He liked words and images. "Blue" was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.