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Quotes About Peace

If you'll learn to release control to God, you'll not only live happier, you'll live longer.
~ Joel Osteen
Assurance that does not lead to a more holy walk is a false assurance. The person whose assurance is well-founded, who experiences tru peace and joy, who is busy in the Lord's service and lives in close fellowship with Him, will lead a holy life. A believer cannot persist in high levels of assurance while he continues in low levels of holiness.
~ Joel R. Beeke
Assurance that does not lead to a more holy walk is a false assurance. The person whose assurance is well-founded, who experiences true peace and joy, who is busy in the Lord's service and lives in close fellowship with Him, will lead a holy life. A believer cannot persist in high levels of assurance while he continues in low levels of holiness.
~ Joel R. Beeke
We are establishing an understanding that the spiritual principles which we learn—the principles of spirit—are our protection, our health, our safety, our security, and our peace. And these principles will bring freedom to every individual on the face of the globe as the world awakens to them.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Look at that house, so quiet and willing. If there is a good way to die, that's it out there. Graceful and calm in the face of inevitability. It feels generous, almost. Beauty and reassurances are not for ourselves. Of course death will come. And of course there is no good way to die. There is no peace. A weight will not lift. A leaf will not fall. But we can pretend.
~ Joey Comeau
Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.
~ Joey Lott
Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.   What you seek is unavoidable. What you seek is what is. Already. This.
~ Joey Lott
Even though I'd love to hear your sweet voice, even if it was only words on a page, it doesn't matter. When I sleep, I share dreams with you. You're right next to me in this cot. I hear your breathing, and feel peace; at the same time I ache because you're also so far away. I think loving you, having you in my life, will be like that. A never-ending craving and peace at once.
~ Joey W. Hill
You've taught me a great deal about stillness.
~ Joey W. Hill
Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.
~ Johan Galtung
The main focus of the TRANSCEND method3 is not to merely identify who is guilty and punish those, the traditional legal approach, but to create an attractive new reality acceptable to all those involved.
~ Johan Galtung
Johann Friedrich von Schiller
~ War nourishes war.
The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.
~ Johann Hari
At the start of the Second World War, the English poet W. H. Auden—when he looked out over the new technologies of destruction that had been created by humans—warned: "We must love one another, or die.
~ Johann Hari
When alcohol was legalized again in 1933, the involvement of gangsters and murderers and killing in the alcohol trade virtually ended. Peace was restored to the streets of Chicago. The murder rate fell dramatically,25 and it didn't rise so high again until drug prohibition was intensified in the 1970s and '80s.
~ Johann Hari
To pay attention in normal ways, you need to feel safe. You need to be able to switch off the parts of your mind that are scanning the horizon for bears or lions or their modern equivalents, and let yourself sink down into one secure topic.
~ Johann Hari
We have run this historical experiment once before, they point out, and we know what one of the effects will be. When alcohol was legalized again in 1933, the involvement of gangsters and murderers and killing in the alcohol trade virtually ended. Peace was restored to the streets of Chicago. The murder rate fell dramatically,25 and it didn't rise so high again until drug prohibition was intensified in the 1970s and '80s. At
~ Johann Hari
It's easier to find serenity through meditation when you haven't just lost your job and you aren't wondering how you're going to avoid being evicted next Tuesday.
~ Johann Hari
Harmony is next to Godliness
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
Tobe, Welt, und springe; ich steh' hier und singe in gar sichrer Ruh'.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
ease. One of them, an agreeable
~ Johann Voss
La soledad en este paraíso terrenal es un bálsamo genial para mi mente,
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Lamplight, console me till then, harbinger warm of the night.
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe