Quotes about Serenity

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

I love the thought that God is in our midst and that He will quiet me by His love.

the only way to diminish our regrets is by making decisions that lead to peace.

The snake's lack of peace on the outside was because of his own lack of peace on the inside…..Spurgeon goes on to equate this viper o people whose irritation is utterly unreasonable. They don't have peace on the inside, therefore it probably won't be possible for them to live with a consistency of peace on the outside.

When we set our minds on the things of God, we will have direct and immediate access to the peace of God.

Don't set into motion what needs to remain still.

He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling—all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace.

My weight loss goal isn't a number on the scale. My real weight loss goal is peace.

Will this choice add to my peace or steal from it? Remember, nothing tastes as good as peace feels.