Top 100 His Peace Quotes
#1. God's Peace (Jer. 16:5) God's peace is unmistakable. Regardless of the circumstances, there is an abiding confidence that all is well. When God chooses to remove His peace, anxiety and fear prevail and nothing can calm the spirit.
Richard Blackaby
#2. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.
Victor Hugo
#3. I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
Thomas Merton
#4. On May 17, 1933, before the Reichstag, Hitler delivered his "Peace Speech," one of the greatest of his career, a masterpiece of deceptive propaganda that deeply moved the German people and unified them behind him and which made a profound and favorable impression on the outside world.
William L. Shirer
#5. But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with pitying eyes can really shake you.
Stefan Zweig
#6. There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
Christopher Smart
#7. When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.
Kay Arthur
#8. If [his] peace of mind depended on me promising to be a sweet and careful little girl, he'd be smart to get used to chaos.
Sharon Green
#9. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. I know where I've come from. I know why I'm here. I know where I'm going - and I have peace in my heart. His peace floods my heart and overwhelms my soul!
Billy Graham
#11. When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.
Elizabeth George
#12. He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.
George Herbert
#13. Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.
Sheldon K. Bass
#14. The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He's in charge anyway. And in Him, you're in His peace.
Matt Chandler
#15. Jesus didn't leave a material inheritance to His disciples. All He had when He died was a robe. But Jesus willed His followers something more valuable than gold. He willed us His peace. He said: "My peace I give to you; not as the world gives" [John 14:27 KJV].
Billy Graham
#16. The shame of her youth screamed at her from every brick, but Jesus silenced it. She had dreaded this moment for weeks, but God was so powerful. In the very place of her worst sin and deepest pain his peace billowed through her soul.
Sarah Sundin
#17. A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
J.C. Ryle
#18. Whatever is worrying you right now, give it to Jesus and trust Him to take care of it. Let His peace replace your worry.
Billy Graham
#19. A wise woman knows the importance of speaking life into her man. If you love him; believe in him, encourage him and be his peace.
Denzel Washington
#20. But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so important and taught him the habit of reality, and when she went there was nothing.
John Le Carre
#22. May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.
Pope Francis
#23. There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.
Rex D. Pinegar
#24. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Anonymous
#25. 6 Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
Anonymous
#26. He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.
Samuel Johnson
#27. His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!
Major Thomas
#28. Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
Ben Jonson
#29. He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love,
Victor Hugo
#30. The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder at and admire beauty, without being in the least danger of having his peace of mind disturbed by love.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#31. And that is where you want to be. Because in His arms, you'll know the beauty of His peace - "the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension" and which guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).
Priscilla Shirer
#32. When his aunt Louisa asked him in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded quite simply: "I did not know we had ever quarreled.
MobileReference
#33. All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
Thomas A Kempis
#34. I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.
James Anthony Froude
#35. If a man's thoughts are unsteady, if he does not know the true law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never be perfect. 39.
Anonymous
#36. Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.
Dean Koontz
#37. God brings us a song so that we may know joy. He enters our hearts so that we may know how to love. God brings us his word so that we may know how to live our lives. He brings us his peace so that we may be strong. God helps to make the world a more loving place.
Phil Mitchell
#39. Part of me is ahead and part of me is behind; and yet I dwell in His Peace in the present. An interesting dynamic.
Lisa Kay Hailey Blair
#40. The two Samanas recognized him simply by the perfection of his peace, by the stillness of his being in which there was no seeking, no desire, no imitation, no attempts at being seen
only light and peace.
Hermann Hesse
#41. May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.
Juan Luis Guerra
#42. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. May the LORD show you his favor and give you his peace.
Anonymous
#44. If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.
Woodrow M. Kroll
#45. The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind.
Lope De Vega
#46. many rich men and high dignitaries would willingly exchange their palaces for the poor man's cottage if they could only acquire his peace of heart.
John Of Kronstadt
#47. If you want to destroy a man, you don't take his life. You let him live. Then you take his peace of mind, his possessions, his loved ones... everything he owns. Then he will beg you to kill him.
Elizabeth Ellen Carter
#48. THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE IS THE MAN WHO CAN HOLD HIS PEACE IN THE FACE OF EVERY AGGRAVATION, AND THE WEAKEST ONE IS HE WHO CANNOT HOLD THAT PEACE!
Werner Schroeder
#49. When we put our cares in his hands he puts his peace in our hearts.
Various
#50. Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!
Matthew Henry
#51. It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Oscar Wilde
#52. The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-seemed inconceivable.
Irvin D. Yalom
#53. We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy
Presence. We are holy in His holiness, loving in His love, strong in His
strength, tender in His tenderness, patient in His patience, calm in His peace,
and consecrated in His consecration.
F. E. Marsh
#54. Even in the midst of difficult times when everything seems to be out of control, you can still control one thing. You can commit yourself to pray every day and to trust God no matter the circumstances, so He could guide you and fill you with His peace that surpasses all understanding.
Yilda B. Rivera
#55. Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
Lauren Willig
#56. I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
Wislawa Szymborska
#57. A deep sense of struggle, a vast amount of mental discomfort from it, are no proof that a man is not sanctified. A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace." - Holiness (p. 125)
J.C. Ryle
#58. I think ... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'
Kurt Vonnegut
#59. Rabids, the stranger had called them. It fit. I wondered where he was now, where he was going. I hoped, wherever it was, he would find his peace.
Julie Kagawa
#60. No cracking of the whip of words
disturbed his peace
in a space that sung.
Dag Hammarskjold
#61. He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.
Victor Hugo
#62. Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.
Miguel
#63. 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.
Marianne Williamson
#64. Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace ... as you sense your weakness, you receive His strength ... as you lay down your will, you hear His calling.
Roy Lessin
#65. Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.
Norm MacDonald
#66. The things that are essential to salvation are so exceedingly simple that no child need sit down in despair of understanding the things which make for his peace. Christ crucified is not a riddle for sages, but a plain truth for plain people. True it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
F.B. Meyer
#68. If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with himself
Sunday Adelaja
#69. He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood ... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm.
Thomas Watson
#70. With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
Calvin Miller
#71. On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.
Conan O'Brien
#72. He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.
Dean Koontz
#73. Our minds are small because they are faithless,' I said to myself.
'If we had faith in God our hearts would share in His greatness and
peace for we should not then be shut up in ourselves, but would walk
abroad in him
George MacDonald
#74. Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.
J.R. Ward
#75. If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it ...
William Faulkner
#76. The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes.
Russell M. Nelson
#77. His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.
Kofi Annan
#78. Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith
#79. I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.
Ronald Reagan
#80. The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#81. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
John Milton
#82. If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
John L. Lewis
#83. The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.
Samuel Johnson
#84. Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion. It strips him of his essence, the fundamental part of his being. A lion that does not behave as a lion i snot a lion. It isn't even the lion's opposite. It's a mockery of a lion.
Rick Yancey
#85. I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.
John Prendergast
#86. Not fair." Grace put her hand on his shoulder and squeezed lightly. "Learn it, live it, love it. The sooner you make peace with the whole life's not fair thing, the better your life will be.
Katie Graykowski
#87. Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#88. In his essay, 'Perpetual Peace,' the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
Henry Kissinger
#89. The heart of man will never find true peace, if it does not empty itself of all that is not God, so as to free itself all free for His love, that He alone may possess the whole of it. But this the soul cannot do of itself; it must obtain it of God by repeated prayers.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#90. For to us a child is born,
for to us a son is given,
and the government shall be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 9:6
Anonymous
#91. If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
Thomas Watson
#92. When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
Shakira
#93. His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.
Bill Clinton
#94. My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.
Samuel Rutherford
#95. As long as man loves a phantom in the sky more than he loves his fellow man, there will never be peace upon this earth; so long as man worships a Tyrant as the "Fatherhood of God," there will never be a "Brotherhood of Man.
Joseph Lewis
#96. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'
Abu Hurairah
#97. All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
Julian Of Norwich
#98. Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
George B. McClellan
#99. The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.
Sri Chinmoy
#100. His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me.
I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm,
I knew again what peace could be.
Anne Rice