Saint Quotes on Peace
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Peace
A great
means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to
receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in
whatever way it comes.--St. Dorotheus
'See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!'
--St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney
He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.
--St Thomas of Villanova
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
--Saint Gerard Majella
“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”
--St. Francis de Sales
"Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit." (To Mme. Stephanie Gourde, November 25, 1850)
--Saint Peter Julian Eymard
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
--Saint Francis of Assisi
"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."
--Saint Jerome
The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.”
--Saint Thomas Aquinas
”By humility a man finds grace before God and peace with men.”
--Blessed Giles of Assisi
”We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.”
--Saint Philip Neri
”The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.”
--Saint Alphonsus Liguori
She who is silent everywhere finds peace.
--St. Teresa Margaret
She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.
--St. Teresa Margaret
“Always receive with equal contentment from God’s hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.”
--St. Teresa Margaret
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
--Saint Teresa
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
--Thomas Aquinas
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
--St. Therese of Lisieux
Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
--St. Therese of Lisieux
