“While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.”
“War in heaven makes no peace on earth.”
“Make peace with yourself, and both heaven and earth will make peace with you.”
“Keep on hoping for peace, my son...even though the heaven is still at war.”
“What is this peace, different from that which the world gives? This peace is the one your love gives... a peace greater than suffering, not a peace without war, but a peace in spite of war, during war, above war, the peace of the soul, having, through love, its whole life in heaven and thus enjoying the peace of heaven in spite of everything which may happen on earth around it and against it. - from Michel Carrouges, "Soldier of the Spirit”
“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”