They look at God's peace from a barrel, but not from an empty one, like that Diogenes, but up to the neck in vodka.
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If you want to pray strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might raise up men who see the beauty of the Lord our God & would begin to preach it & hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job & cottage.
We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.
So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.
—Amy Carmichael
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
He who listens to what others say about him will never be at peace.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Peace will be established only by the reign of the prince of peace.”
Enjoy whatsoever brings glory to God, and promotes peace and goodwill among men.
—John Wesley
“You are not to seek your own selfish ends, or the aggrandizement of a party, but to promote the general good, and the interests of truth, righteousness, peace, and purity.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh seek to know on earth the peace of heaven, the rest of heaven, the victory of heaven, the service of heaven, the communion of heaven, the holiness of heaven; you may have foretastes of all these; seek after them.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Repaying offense with offense is just putting more wood on the fire, but he who meets his offender with peace has already defeated him with peace itself.
—Leo Tolstoy
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
—Franz Kafka
Just recognize that you’re not the master but a servant and your searching, anxiety, and dissatisfaction will instantly transform into certainty, tranquility, peace and indestructible joy.
—Leo Tolstoy
The best answer to a fool is silence. Every word you speak to a fool bounces back to you. Repaying offense with offense is just putting more wood on the fire, but he who meets his offender with peace has already defeated him with peace itself.
—Leo Tolstoy
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
—George Washington
War is progress, peace is stagnation.
—Georg Hegel
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
After prayer comes peace—the first answer to prayer is the peace of God which passeth all understanding.
—Amy Carmichael
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
—George Washington
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
—Voltaire
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
—Georg Hegel
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen
When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
—Laozi
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none.
—Thomas Jefferson
We make war that we may live in peace.
—Aristotle
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau