Quotes About Peace

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Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

When all else is done, God is enough, everything, and always.

God is in the storm. That though the winds blow and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.

Forgiveness is the currency of heaven.

God is in the storm. Though the winds blow, and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.

Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.

if I walk around with anger in my heart, it just darkens my own soul. Forgiveness is hard, but really, it costs me nothing because it doesn't come from me.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving… It's for yourself. It's hat you do to be set free.

Romans 15:13: "I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." Our job is to trust. God's job is to overflow us with joy.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

And yesterday, when she'd claimed a quiet place on

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

And what does war even accomplish? How does one country win over another by simply killing its people? None of it makes any sense.

It's that sacred place where your soul is at rest because all the people you love most are there.

I no longer fear Death, though I know that I should. I'm strangely at peace with what I used to think of as my enemy. Living seems more the taskmaster of the two, doesn't it? Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be. Dying, by contrast, is easy and simple, almost gentle. But who can I tell such a thing to? No one. I am troubled by how remarkable this feeling is.

have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don't we?

You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. I

There is a calming aura at the ocean's edge, despite the frothing foam, crashing waves and roaring white noise. The ocean looks the same on your good days and your bad days. Nice to know on the worse of days that there are few things you can utterly count on. P. 107

I find her often at the peach tree, looking up at its branches and listening to the rustle of its leaves.

Wars begin and wars end. There will be peace again. We only need to hold on to who we are, deep within, so that we'll recognize ourselves on the other side when it's over.

War can come any way. If we let it. If we invite it. Not on land with horses and swords. But in our houses. In our bedrooms. In our hearts.

The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.

The library is an easy place to be when you have no place you need to go and a desire to be invisible.