Quotes About Peace

Or he could go back to the ease of solitude. It's really not so bad, being alone, never worrying about what has to be done for, or with, or in the interest of another. it's like you let your mind stay in its pajamas all day.

Do not carry remorse for anything in the past; in the end, it is only prideful. Let peace dwell inside you, live your life in joy, and give thanks that God has come to you in this way.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

Diplomacy, after all, had kept the world a reasonably peaceful place, in spite of its being ruled by men.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.

I dropped my head into my arms. I could hear the sea vibrating, the tiny hiss of displaced sand and the click of stones. If I lay still and quiet enough, I thought, I could melt into this elemental world of sun, water and wide, open horizon.

There is only so much discordance to which anyone can listen before the notes become unbearable and they tune it out.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen.

What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God's help.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

Life need not be easy to be joyful. Joy is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.1

God's peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

If only I could be here alone, without Judith or anyone, she thought with longing. Someday I am going to come back to this place, when there is time just to stand still and look at it. How often she would come back she had no way of foreseeing, nor could she know that never, in the months to come, would the Meadows break the promise they held for her at this moment, a promise of peace and quietness and of comfort for a troubled heart.

The girl looked about her. "' Tis a pretty room," she said without thinking, and then wondered how that could be, when it was so plain and bare. Perhaps it was only the sunlight on boards that were scrubbed smooth and white, or perhaps it was the feeling of peace that lay across the room as tangibly as the bar of sunshine.

Jesus? she breathed. Into Jesus' face came the old smle with which he had so often looked at the children who crowded around him. It is--all right? she whispered. It is all right, Jesus answered. Do not be afraid.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.