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Peace: Quotations from Burning Words

When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.— MATTHEW HENRY

In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace. You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required, and content that He should indeed require no more of you,- than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.— JOHN RUSKIN

After love comes peace. A great many people are trying to make peace. But that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all that we have to do is to enter into it.— D. L. MOODY

If there is any thing that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples, and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to it in all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is a simple, free, and child-like repose in the arms of God.— FENELON

How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God. Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee.— FENELON

There have been keen agonies, sore heart-aches, but they have been short, and a sweet peace abides. Can it be His peace? Is it possible that to such a weak, sinful creature as I, the Comforter has indeed come? I must believe this, and that it is His presence that cheers me.— A. H. K

Patience and resignation are the pillars Of human peace on earth.— YOUNG

The promise is: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee." Now, as long as our minds are stayed on our dear selves, we shall never have peace.— D. L. MOODY

The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.— F. W. ROBERTSON

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.— JOSEPH COok

What produced this divine serenity, subject to no moods, clouded by no depression, this perpetual Sunday of the heart? It was not merely good nature, not the accident of a happy organization. It was deeper than that. It was the perfect poise resulting from a Christian experience. It was the habit of looking to God in love and to man in love.— J. F. CLARKE

It is not that I feel less weak, but Thou Wilt be my strength. It is not that I see Less sin, but more of pardoning love in Thee, And all-sufficient grace. Enough! And now All fluttering thought is stilled; I only rest, And feel that Thou art near, and know that I am blest.— F. R. HAVERGAL

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.— GEORGE ELIOT

And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of our way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Let not thy peace depend on the tongues of men; for whether they judge well of thee or ill, thou art not on that account other than thyself. Where are true peace and true glory? Are they not in God?— EDWARD GARRETt

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world - peace with sin, and peace in sin.