Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
– Andrew Murray –
If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
– Thomas Watson –
When filled with holy truth, the mind rests.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Earth has no words that can convey the holy calm of a soul leaning on Jesus.
– Charles Spurgeon –
A spirit of calm contentment always accompanies true godliness.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
As afflictions abound, even so do consolations abound by Jesus Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The seeming peace a sinner has is not from the knowledge of his happiness but the ignorance of his danger.
– Thomas Watson –
The conscience cannot be truly pacified until soundly purified (Heb 10:22). Cursed is that peace maintained in a way of sin (Deut 29:19-20). Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world: peace with sin, and peace in sin.
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
Some of our sweetest solaces never could have been known but for the afflictions which bring them. What tender friendships gather around us when we are sick! What hearts beat for us and sympathize with us, and would, if they could, take themselves the pain that racks us! We should never know what tenderness and pity and kindness there is in the world, if our trials did not bring them out. Many of our calamities attach us more to our fellow-men, and make us think better of the world than we did before.
– Ichabod Spencer –