Quotes About Serenity

My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.

Wise men fish here.

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky...

I like my home and I like the nature.

With a twinkle in his eyes, my friend says that his favorite prayer is, "Lord, give me patience—and give it to me right now!

Jesus didn't leave a material inheritance to His disciples. All He had when He died was a robe. But Jesus willed His followers something more valuable than gold. He willed us His peace. He said: "My peace I give to you; not as the world gives" [John 14:27 KJV].

Pero hay otra clase de felicidad, la que todos hemos estado anhelando y buscando. Esta segunda clase de felicidad es paz y gozo internos y duraderos que sobreviven a cualquier circunstancia.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

For the Christian, peace is not simply the absence of conflict, or any other artificial state the world has to offer. Rather it is the deep, abiding peace only Jesus Christ brings to the heart.

Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.

Peace—[the ability] to sleep in the storm!

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

Nothing made by the hand of man has ever been so beautiful as starlight on the water or moonlight on the snow. And the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

I have found in my travels that those who keep heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. Forward-looking Christians remain optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ someday will rule.

Nothing can calm our souls more or better prepare us for life's challenges than time spent alone with God.

Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.

Our natural desire is to be doing something; but there are times in our lives when it is wiser to wait and just be still.

I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.