- Fiona Macleod

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

- Victor Hugo

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest until we rest in thee.

- St. Augustine

Some people have just enough religion to make them feel uncomfortable.

- John Wesley

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plenitude.

- Jacques Maritain

“…The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace…”

- from the Priestly Blessing Num: 6:26

‘Tis loving and serving the highest and best; ’tis onward unswerving and this is true rest.

- from True Rest by Johann Von Goethe

The dove of peace is always on wing, only God can cause it to land.

- The author

On prayer

Each soul has a secret place, where none may enter in. Save it with God – to them alone what goeth on therein is known to God alone.

- from The Secret Place by John Oxenham

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge in God’s will.

- Frederick W. Robertson

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer introduces us to the Great Companion who meets our human need with his divine response. The man who has learned to pray is no longer alone in the universe. He is praying in his Father’s house.

- William Adams Brown

Prayer is self-discipline, which comes as a result of discovering God’s will and then making the necessary adjustment within one’s thoughts, feelings and acts.

- Charles L. Allen

There are times in a man’s life when, regardless of the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees in prayer.

- Victor Hugo

If you would never cease to pray, never cease to long for it. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

- St. Augustine

The Lord is my protector. When I am walking through the valley of loneliness and despair He is always with me. His love and compassion pushes away the evil and His light shines through lifting me up. And placing me on the ledge of happiness, joy and love, He is the balancing weight of my life.

- The author