Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Interpretation
Inner peace outweighs external circumstances.
This quote emphasizes the importance of inner tranquility and contentment, suggesting that when one's soul is filled with peace and joy, external factors become less significant in determining happiness and well-being. It highlights the notion that true happiness arises from within rather than from our surroundings or conditions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience during tough times.
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.
Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, -intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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