Quotes about Serenity

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

There's a couple—she is nestled up into his chest, eyes closed, like she's trying to top off an interrupted night's sleep.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Pascal and his brilliant exposition in Pensées. "I have often said," Pascal wrote, "that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room."46

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

God's mark of approval, whenever you obey Him, is peace. He sends an immeasurable, deep peace; not a natural peace, "as the world gives," but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, wait until it does, or seek to find out why it is not coming. If you are acting on your own impulse, or out of a sense of the heroic, to be seen by others, the peace of Jesus will not exhibit itself.

said—"Let not your heart be troubled." God will not keep your heart from being troubled. It is a command—"Let not.

The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace.

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.