Oswald Chambers Quotes

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.

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.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

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

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

Peace is our natural state of being.

This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

Peace… starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

Let my Peace which passes all understanding infill and enfold you, for when you are at Peace within, you reflect Peace without, and all those souls you meet will feel that Peace.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.