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“Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”
The verse connects durable peace with a stable moral orientation, suggesting that inner steadiness changes how disturbances are received.
Source note: Psalm 119:165 in the King James Version.
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“He restoreth my soul.”
Restoration is expressed as renewal of the inner person, a compact image for recovering steadiness after depletion, fear, or difficulty.
Source note: Psalm 23:3 in the King James Version; restoration follows the psalm’s images of rest and still waters.
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“Holiness alone is undying peace.”
Allen contrasts lasting peace with temporary comfort or outward victory, then immediately connects the durable state he describes with self-control and an increasing orientation toward wisdom.
Source note: The Way of Peace, “The Realization of Perfect Peace,” Project Gutenberg #10740. The sentence follows Allen’s contrast between temporary peace from comfort or worldly victory and what he calls the enduring “Peace of Heaven”; the theological framework is retained rather than recast as clinical advice.
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“Be still, and know that I am God.”
Stillness is paired with trust, shifting attention away from frantic control and toward a larger frame of confidence and perspective.
Source note: Psalm 46:10 in the King James Version; the verse places stillness and trust inside a psalm about turmoil and refuge.
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“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.”
Voice: Fictional character · Almustafa
In the work’s poetic frame, inward knowledge exists before it is fully verbalized; the line values listening closely to one’s own interior understanding without claiming that intuition is automatically infallible.
Source note: The Prophet, section “Self-Knowledge.” A man asks Almustafa to speak about self-knowledge, and Almustafa answers with this line before describing the heart’s knowledge and the self as a boundless sea. The represented wording is the 1923 text preserved by Wikisource/Project Gutenberg #58585.
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“As you succeed in overcoming self you will begin to see things in their right relations.”
For Allen, clearer perception follows disciplined work on one’s own impulses and biases; self-mastery changes not only conduct but the proportions in which problems are seen.
Source note: The Way of Peace; Allen links self-mastery with clearer perception and a less distorted relationship to circumstances and other people.