Quotes about Turmoil

Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

For we are in jeopardy of being charged with rioting for today’s events, and we have no justification to account for this commotion.”

When do we most need peace? That becomes the cry of our heart when our life is in turmoil and battles are being waged against us. It is God who gives us a peace that passes all human understanding.

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

When we do not take authority over our own souls and we allow our emotions to run wild, we lose our peace very quickly. We certainly end up in inner turmoil and we often create strife in our relationships. For