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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. -- Patricia Heaton
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. -- Frederick Buechner
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. -- Dalai Lama
There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord's presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy. -- Joseph Prince
Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. -- Nhat Hanh
Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy -- Amit Ray
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy. -- Ernest Holmes
I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it. -- Brian Welch
Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone. -- Thomas a Kempis
I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy. -- Eileen Caddy
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them. -- Thomas Kinkade
Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy. -- Debbie Ford
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. -- Francis Chan
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. -- Frederick Buechner
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love,give them peace and joy. -- Mother Teresa
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world. -- Billy Graham
If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go. -- Joyce Meyer
Your true nature is purity, peace and joy. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The beauty of the soul; inner peace and joy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Every day is Christmas. Everyday Christ embrace us with His love, peace and joy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way. -- Charles L. Allen
The beautiful affair of sun, sky and the sea brings a perfect moment of love, peace and joy -- Umair Siddiqui
Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory. -- Smith Wigglesworth
The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available. -- Nhat Hanh
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. -- George Eliot
Some are born for peace and joySome are born for sorrowBut only for a day as weShall not be here tomorrow -- Stevie Smith
Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy. -- Gautama Buddha
Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy? -- Nhat Hanh
Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself. -- William Law
What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans. -- Isha Judd
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. -- Herman Melville
Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be filled with peace and joy from the very beginning. Their absence is an indication that something is amiss. (125) -- Prem Prakash
You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful. -- Peter Kreeft
The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world. -- Isaac Asimov
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. -- Thomas Kinkade
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace. -- Pope Francis
I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have. -- Ricky Schroder
I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace. -- David D. Burns
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. -- John Buchan
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing. -- Christopher Love
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. -- Thomas Merton
Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same. -- Wayne Dyer
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. -- Jimmy Carter
I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love. -- Lindsay Wagner
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible. -- Victoria Jackson
I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving. -- Liza Minnelli
I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.' -- Joel Osteen
The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find. -- Cornel West
Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another. -- M. Russell Ballard
Joy is innermost peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace of mind, joy at heart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy. -- Walter Scott
You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love -- Ram Dass
The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom. -- Ram Dass
Find joy and peace in this very moment. -- Nhat Hanh
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. -- Rumi
May God give you inner peace, joy and happiness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The season of Christmas brings joy, hope and peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest. -- F.B. Meyer
Trust in the Lord brings much hope, joy and peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing. -- F. F. Bruce
If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God. -- Joyce Meyer
Jesus continues to offer light, joy, and peace to today's generation. -- David Jeremiah
God bless all mankind with faith, hope, love, joy and peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the heavenly paradise, we find love, joy, hope and peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable. -- Oprah Winfrey
Christmas united us as holy beings. We experience love, joy and peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom. -- T.F. Hodge
Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. -- Catherine McAuley
I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Nobody leaves a house where there is peace, joy and good sex. -- Laura Schlessinger
The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind. -- Ovid
In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair. -- Euripides
Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear. -- Rhonda Byrne
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. -- Eckhart Tolle
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. -- George Grosz
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. -- George MacDonald
His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal. -- Max Lucado
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. -- Oprah Winfrey
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. -- Max Lucado
A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy. -- Pope Francis
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things. -- Maya Angelou
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood. -- Robert M. Price
Making peace with one's truth is to live in one's own moment, moving passionately forward in joy. -- Michelle Cruz
The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are. -- Jack Kornfield
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously. -- Rollo May
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003 -- Anne Lamott
Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life. -- Wang Wei
Love, joy and peace for the world, that's what I want...peace for the world and love. -- Michael Jackson
When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have. -- David Jeremiah
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? -- Kathleen Norris
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment. -- Mooji
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy -- Bible
Let the light of your love enlighten the whole world and fill it with joy, happiness, and peace. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy. -- Allan Lokos
Cultivate blessing. Bless yourself. Bless the whole world. Let it be full with love, peace, joy and happiness. -- Amit Ray
The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life. -- Thomas Kinkade
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. -- Edmund Waller
Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world. -- Pope Francis

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