I just finished reading Jacques Philippe's book Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart. Even though it is a short book, with just over 100 pages, it packed quite a punch!
Some highlights:
"God abides in peace and it is in peace that He accomplishes great things"
"When the Lord affirms that He gives peace, that He gives us peace, these words are divine words, words which have the same creative force as the words that brought the sky and the earth from the void, they carry the same weight as the words that quieted the storm, the words that healed the sick and brought the dead back to life. Since Jesus tells us, even twice, that He gives us His peace, we believe that this peace is never taken away."
"How many young people...hesitate to give their lives entirely to God because they do not have confidence that God is capable of making them completely happy."
"[God] desires our salvation more than we ourselves desire it."
It took me a few months to read through the whole book, even though it was short, because of how much material on which there was to meditate. More than anything else, it taught me how little peace I truly have, but how much peace I would like to have!
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