Quotes about Peace
You can create a climate for him according to your attitude, and this is part of your job as a wife. The home you make and the atmosphere of that home is the world he comes back to from the world of his work. Let it be a place of beauty and peace.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Just start thanking God in advance because no matter what is about to happen, you already know that God is in charge. You are not adrift in a sea of chaos.
— Elisabeth Elliot
A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all. In unforeseen events let me not forget that all are sent by You.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The disciples' worst fears were about to be realized, yet Jesus commanded (yes, commanded) them to be at peace. All would be well, all manner of things would be well—in the end.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did--most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way--through acceptance.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Although I have not found intellectual satisfaction, I have found peace. The answer I say to you is not an explanation but a person, Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If God loves me, Hell make me happy". Well, yes and no. Happy isnt the word, really. Its joy, a far better thing. Not a sentiment, not mere "feeling good", but something that can never be taken away.
— Elisabeth Elliot
My portion. My cup. My lot is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How simple!
— Elisabeth Elliot
Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.
— Elisabeth Elliot
And yet I know that in her death, she has found the freedom she could not find in life. She is no longer confined to a room, a bed, and a body that no longer works.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
— Elizabeth George