Peace

Seeming Peace of Sinners – Thomas Watson

The seeming peace a sinner has is not from the knowledge of his happiness but the ignorance of his danger.

– Thomas Watson –

Two Types of Peace – Joseph Alleine

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

Affliction brings sweet solace – Ichabod Spencer

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 –

How to have courage and peace – Gladys Aylward

Here I was worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul; and although I know that I may be held up at the border, I am at peace within, because I know that He never faileth.

– Gladys Aylward –