Quotes about Tranquility

And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

love to sleep. It's like being dead without the commitment

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be. Experiencing silence means periodically withdrawing from the activity of speech. It also means periodically withdrawing from such activities as watching television, listening to the radio, or reading a book. If you never give yourself the opportunity to experience silence, this creates turbulence in your internal dialogue.

The New Testament calls this "the peace that passes understanding," because it goes beyond thinking—no amount of mental churning will get you there.

Who is content simply to be? You too have felt the peace of simply being. Wake up to that, and you will join me in being free.

are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep ?without identity. and never care how rain may steep, ?or snow may cover me —

In the chamber of death... I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadow less hereafter-the Eternity they have entered-where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fullness... One might doubt in seasons of cold reflection; but not then in the presence of her corpse. It asserted its own tranquility, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant.

This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. 

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.