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Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
- Thomas a Kempis
Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable
- Hillary Clinton
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
- Teresa of Avila
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
- John Milton
While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As joined in injuries, and enmity Against a foe by doom express assigned us, That cruel serpent.
- John Milton
Solitude sometimes is the best society.
- John Milton
For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.
- John Milton
But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
- John Milton
You have liberty to cast all your cares upon him who cares for you. By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him — you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.
- John Newton
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible.
- John Ortberg