Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

We are enveloped in peace, whether or not we feel ourselves to be at peace. By that I mean the peace that passes understanding is not a subjective sensation of peace; if we are in Christ, we are in peace even when we feel no peace.

Trusting God brings life.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.

When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God - and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?