Thomas a Kempis Peace Quotations

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

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

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.