First keep yourself in peace and then you will be able to bring others to peace. The peaceable man does more good than one who is very learned.
First keep yourself in peace and then you will be able to bring others to peace. The peaceable man does more good than one who is very learned.
Do not worry about tomorrow, it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.
Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
He who is in perfect peace suspects no man. But he who is discontented and disturbed is agitated by various suspicions; he neither has rest himself, nor does he permit others to rest.
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
He who is too sure in time of peace, will often show himself to be downcast or fearful in time of war.