When Peace Like A River Quotes

#1. Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

William C. Bryant

#2. He raged and questioned and mourned. Eventually he found peace - not peace like some still pond, but peace like a river, jostling over rocks, hurtling over falls, whirling in eddies. Authentic, rugged peace.

Sarah Sundin

#3. We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

Malala Yousafzai

#4. You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.

Alexander Whyte

#5. I say I am stronger than fear.

Malala Yousafzai

#6. You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.

Dana Brunetti

#7. As I have learned over the years, your friends don't change; you just learn to ignore or embrace the bad bits.

Carrie Adams

#8. You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

Lee Kuan Yew

#9. An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a Garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India; many great nations; different people living in the same place, an inversion of the notion of nation.

Aporva Kala

#10. Be nice to nice.

Harry Styles

#11. Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Francis Bacon

#12. I please the Lord. I bring a smile to His face and a song to His heart. He wants to be with me. He wants to live within me.

Don Nori Sr.

#13. Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

Morris Gleitzman

#14. The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

Ella Baker

#15. When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

Karl Barth