Seeking Peace Quotes

Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

I am a lover, not a fighter.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'