Quotes on Peace & Rest
Christian quotes on Peace & Rest — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
And when this cup of silence now spreads deep around us, let us hear that full sound of the world, which invisibly widens around us, the exalted song of praise of all Your children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy.
Francis of Assisi
Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away. God never changes. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
Teresa of Ávila
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Security in the ultimate gives serenity in the penultimate.
Romano Guardini
You have touched my eyelids. I sleep without worry. He who led me into this night will guide me also tomorrow.
Jochen Klepper
God is the friend of silence. See how trees, flowers and grass grow in silence! See how the stars, the moon and the sun move in silence!
Mother Teresa
Up, up, bid your pain and worries good night, let go what troubles and saddens the heart; for you are not the ruler who must govern everything—God sits in command and guides all things well!
Paul Gerhardt
Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body… Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Look around and you will see distress; look within and you will be depressed; look at Jesus and you will be at rest.
Corrie ten Boom
How many of our sleepless hours might be traced to our untrusting and disordered minds. They slumber sweetly whom faith rocks to sleep. No pillow so soft as a promise; no coverlet so warm as an assured interest in Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All of human unhappiness comes from not being able to stay quietly in a room.
Blaise Pascal
It's a day when I don't accomplish anything, and I don't feel guilty.
John Mark Comer
Do not be sad. God helps me so wonderfully and palpably up to now.
Alfred Delp
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.
Thomas Merton
Remember, you are held safe. You are loved. You are protected. You are in communion with God and with those whom God has sent you. What is of God will last. It belongs to the eternal life. Choose it, and it will be yours.
Henri Nouwen
Corrie ten Boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy. There’s truth in that. Both sin and busyness have the exact same effect—they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul.
John Mark Comer
Against evil and sad thoughts a good, cheerful song and friendly conversation are called for.
Martin Luther
What Jesus is, not what we do, gives our soul rest.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Go under grace, go with God's blessing, go in his peace, whatever you do. Go under grace, listen to God's word, stay near him, whether you wake or rest.
Manfred Siebald
Lord, we ask, come and bless us; lay your peace upon us. Hold your blessing hands over us. Touch us with your power.
Peter Strauch
Peace is not the absence of all struggle, but the presence of God.
Eva von Tiele-Winckler
Jesus also lets his people rest: in spring they may sit in the sun without constantly having spiritual thoughts.
Helmut Thielicke
I sleep in the name of the Lord and know that my sleep too is pleasing to God.
Martin Luther
If you give silence before God your little finger, it takes the whole hand and unclenches the fist.
Eberhard Jüngel
Communion with God makes bitter things – sweet; and massive things – light.
Thomas Brooks
The bird rests in the air, the stone on the ground, the fish in the water — and I in the hands of God.
Angelus Silesius
Prayer is the soul’s breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
Thomas Watson
The peace of God is God's faithfulness despite our unfaithfulness.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
People quoted here
Augustine of Hippo, Craig Groeschel, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Ávila, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., Romano Guardini, Jochen Klepper, Mother Teresa, Paul Gerhardt, Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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