The soul of man is a noisy hostelry, full of turmoil and disquietude, and giving entertainment to every vain and passing thought which seeks admittance there. But when Christ comes, and takes up His abode in the heart, He reduces it to order and peace; and though it may move amid the excitements and confusions of life, yet hath it an inner stillness which they cannot disturb or destroy; for the King of Peace is there, and Peace is the purchase of His Cross, and the last legacy of His Love and His ancient promise to His people; for so it is written,—"He hath made peace through the Blood of His Cross;" "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you;"—"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee."
Edward Meyrick Goulburn — Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., Thoughts on Personal Religion; Being a Treatise on the Christian Life in Its Two Chief Elements, Devotion and Practice, new edition (London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1869), ch. VIII, "Fight Watchfully," p. 226
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