Peace
“We want to complexify our lives. We don’t have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.”
~Peter Kreeft
“If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it.”
~Blaise Pascal
“A Christian experiences no boredom and need for diversion in proportion as he experiences Christ.”
~Peter Kreeft
“A brother asked Abba Rufus, ‘What is interior peace, and what use is it?’ The old man said, ‘Interior peace means to remain sitting in one’s cell with fear and knowledge of God, holding far off the remembrance of wrongs suffered and pride of spirit. Such interior peace brings forth all the virtues, preserves the monk from the burning darts of the enemy, and does not allow him to be wounded by them. Yes, brother, acquire it.’”
~From The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
~Peter Kreeft
“If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it.”
~Blaise Pascal
“A Christian experiences no boredom and need for diversion in proportion as he experiences Christ.”
~Peter Kreeft
“A brother asked Abba Rufus, ‘What is interior peace, and what use is it?’ The old man said, ‘Interior peace means to remain sitting in one’s cell with fear and knowledge of God, holding far off the remembrance of wrongs suffered and pride of spirit. Such interior peace brings forth all the virtues, preserves the monk from the burning darts of the enemy, and does not allow him to be wounded by them. Yes, brother, acquire it.’”
~From The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
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