Quotes about Inner peace

a person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.

And I have learned to pray.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

If I were to ask about my seven months at the Abbey, Did it work, did I solve my problems? the simple answer would be, It did not work, it did not solve my problems. And I know that a year, two years, or even a lifetime as a Trappist monk would not have worked either. Because a monastery is not built to solve problems but to praise the Lord in the midst of them.

We often live as if our happiness depended on having. But I don't know anyone who is really happy because of what he or she has. True joy, happiness, and inner peace come from the giving of ourselves to others. A happy life is a life for others. That truth, however, is usually discovered when we are confronted with our brokenness.

Joy and resentment cannot coexist.

It is as if we have been wandering in a foreign land looking for peace and purpose in our lives and a true sense of who we are. Jesus stands in our midst and beckons us home so that we can be restored to our true selves.

In the depths of his anguish, Henri made a conscious choice to spend a good part of every day in solitude, seeking God.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

It had brought me into touch with something within me that lies far beyond the ups and downs of a busy life, something that represents the ongoing yearning of the human spirit, the yearning for a final return, an unambiguous sense of safety, a lasting home.