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Divine Blessings: Peacemakers:

Quotations

'The work of righteousness shall be peace' (Isaiah 32, 17).

'There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked' (Isaiah 57, 21).

'Peace, perfect peace, by thronging duties pressed ?
To do the will of Jesus, this is rest'.
                                     (Bickersteth)

'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid' (John 14, 27).

'Heavenly peace flows in, when the lusts arising from the love of self and of the world are taken away ... for these infest the interiors of man and cause him at length to place rest in restlessness ... so long as man is in such evils he cannot know what peace is' (Swedenborg A.C. 5662).


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