Quotes about Serenity

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

I rest in the light of forgiveness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.