Quotes About Peace

For those few stolen minutes, she found she could let go, second by second, of everything that haunted her until her mind was empty as a scoured bowl and all she knew was flavor on her tongue, air against her face, the small, dazzling details of her scrap of world.

At first she was happy because she had decided to be, and then she relaxed into her happiness and just felt it.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Our Father in Heaven,' she said, 'comfort the souls that have departed with divine peace, and take them unto You. Grant their bodies soft and quiet rest in the earth till the Last Day, when You will reunite body and soul and lead them into heavenly joy there.

Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world—or the last.

He had perhaps been bruised too often. The peace of the vast aloof scrub had drawn him with the beneficence of its silence. Something in him was raw and tender. The touch of men was hurtful upon it, but the touch of pines was healing.

I'll walk off the rest of my mad.

Words began fights and words ended them.

Only she who trusts nothing can know real peace.

We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.

I don't think we have souls. I think death is the end. A lot of people can't bear that idea, but I find it a little restful, really. I'm happy not to feel I'm going on. I don't really want to. I think this life has been plenty. It's just about all anybody could take, really. I'm cheerful about the feeling the end will come -- let it come.

Quiet is a think tank of the soul."17 Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

Philippians 4:6 – 7: Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. I

The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.

Peace is at hand? Kissinger sounded like Neville Chamberlain returning from his talk with Hitler, saying, "Peace in our time." Did he mean peace at all costs, regardless of their ally's fate?

The act of killing is not a good thing. God did not put us on this earth to kill each other," he said slowly as he searched for the words. "But sometimes it has to be done.

It sounds strange to hear people talk about the delights and miracles of technology, when they do not even begin to compare with what you can find in a riverbed.

In general, the deployment of austerity as economic policy has been as effective in bringing us peace, prosperity, and crucially, a sustained reduction of debt, as the Mongol Golden Horde was in furthering the development of Olympic dressage.

John Updike once said that he was confused by the very concept of "antiwar," which he felt, and I'm paraphrasing him here, was like being "anti-food" or "anti-sex," since war was such an essential element of human experience.

without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. "Be still, and know that I am God." Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still.

The root idea of Sabbath is simple as rain falling, basic as breathing. It's that all living things—and many nonliving things too— thrive only by an ample measure of stillness.

He sheathed the sword and hung it back on the wall. "I expect he is dead now." He returned to his bunk. "I have learned that holding on to anger is like eating poison in the absurd expectation that your enemy will vomit blood. Anger destroys you—no other. You must not let that happen.

After the first week, I found I could trick my troubled mind into much-needed sleep. My method was to ask a question that had haunted my loneliness since I was a child: Why does God allow suffering? Isaiah supplied the answer: "I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do all these things.

When you genuinely accept the risks, you will be at peace with any outcome. When you're at peace with any outcome, you will experience a carefree, objective state of mind, where you make yourself available to perceive and act upon whatever the market is offering you (from its perspective) at any given "now moment.