Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
Interpretation
Impatience disrupts our inner peace, while true peace comes from a trusting heart.
This quote emphasizes that feelings of restlessness and impatience can’t change our circumstances; instead, they only disturb our internal state of peace and joy. True peace is found not in external situations but within ourselves when we trust in a higher power and have the patience to wait for things to unfold in their own time.
In practice
In a speech about stress management where patience is key.
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different sizes. That some were so big they were like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.
You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.
The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It's like, without it, I'm not me. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can't stress that enough.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.