Quotes about Inner peace

We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

It is a hard thing to break through a habit and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles how wilt thou overcome greater ones Withstand thy will at the beginning and unlearn an evil habit lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring ...and what joy to others methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Grant to me a humble and quiet spirit, one that is never uncontrolled or garrulous.

But let us lay the axe to the very root of our life, that, being cleansed from affections, we may possess our souls in peace.

It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how shalt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring to thyself, and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.

Therefore let not thy heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

The kingdom of God is within you, as the Lord says. Turn to the Lord with all your heart, leave this miserable world behind, and you will find rest for your soul.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall have abundance of peace.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?