Quotes about Peace
I'm here to say that you can't make the troubled waters of life go away by defending yourself against them. You can only walk over those troubled waters if you offer peace to them and leave the safety of your boat. Or so it was once written, and I have found Jesus' teaching to be true.
- Ted Dekker
Any time you find yourself worrying about anything, or upset because someone has dishonored or betrayed you, it is only because you have placed your faith in something other than Jesus.
- Ted Dekker
Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua
- Ted Dekker
There are no longer any problems to solve. If there are no longer any problems to solve, there's no longer any need for correction. If there's no need for correction, then there's no need for law. Live in the grace of that which is now perfect, as it is. Be perfect, don't try to become perfect. You already are, you just don't know it yet. Be still and know.
- Ted Dekker
There's a story about a boat caught in a terrible storm. All the passengers were terrified except one, who slept in peace even as the waves pounded the boat, threatening the lives of all on board. They called that one Yeshua. The others rushed to him and begged him to save them. He stood and asked them one question. 'Why are you afraid, you of little faith?
- Ted Dekker
Why would this teacher not be afraid in the face of such a terrible threat? Unless what he saw and what the others saw were two different realities. Where they saw a threat, he slept in peace. This was perhaps his greatest miracle, much greater than the healing of a rash.
- Ted Dekker
Condemnation is only trying to fight fear with fear.
- Ted Dekker
Yeshua's way was to protect nothing and let go of all grievance, as
- Ted Dekker
All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
- Julian of Norwich
And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.
- Julian of Norwich
For I saw no wrath except on man's side, and he forgives that in us, for wrath is nothing but a perversity and an opposition to peace and to love.
- Julian of Norwich
For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him; for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us.
- Julian of Norwich