The Way of Serenity Quotes

“Patience is a virtue,                     Possess it if you can,                     Seldom found in woman,                     Never found in man.”
― Jonathan Morris, The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer

“One of life’s many paradoxes is that the more we focus on ourselves and our own well-being, to the neglect of our neighbor, the more unsettled and unhappy we become.”
― Jonathan Morris, The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer

“Prayer consists in laying ourselves bare before him who already sees our soul’s nakedness in all of its sinfulness and goodness, and who then responds by helping us take off our blinders to see ourselves and others through his eyes.”
― Jonathan Morris, The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer

“Lord, please grant me today a taste of your peace, a peace the world cannot give. Help me to embrace my past instead of wishing for another, and to look for your action today in the sacrament of the moment.”
― Jonathan Morris, The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer

“World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of modern men, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.”
― Jonathan Morris, The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer