QUOTATION: Inner Peace

True peace is born of the tranquility of order, wherein the senses are subject to the reason, the reason to faith, and the whole personality to the Will of God. The true peace that follows conversion is deepened, not disturbed, by the crosses, checks, and disquietudes of the world, for they are welcomed as coming from the hands of the Loving Father. This true peace can never come from adjustment to the world, for if the world is wicked, adjustments to wickedness make us worse. IT comes only from identification of one’s own will with the Will of God.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul, 1949

QUOTATION: The Slavery of People-Pleasing

A strange and unhappy slavery is that of a man who seeks to please other men. I vow never to do anything nor to leave anything undone because of what people think. This will set up in me a great interior peace.

--St. Claude de la Colombiere

QUOTATION: Peace of Soul

The cowardly, for not wishing to fight against themselves, will never enjoy, or only late, true peace of soul and the possession of any perfection ; the brave and the earnest possess both in a short time.

--St. Ignatius Loyola

QUOTATION: Worldly Desires

As long as our hearts keep vacillating among the many wants of the world, we cannot move forward in life with inner peace and joy.

--Fr. Henri Nouwen

QUOTATION: Inner Peace

The worldly have troubles without any peace; those who love God have troubles in the world, but peace in Christ.

--St Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Inner Peace

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, not even if your whole world seems upset. If you find that you have wandered away from the shelter of God, lead your heart back to Him quietly and simply.

-- St. Francis de Sales