When we are not anxious, the mind set free, and the peace of God keeping the heart, God sets the soul thinking on happy things. “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest – just – pure – lovely – of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do; and the God of peace shall be with you” (Phil. 4:8-9). God is there the companion of the soul; not merely “the peace of God,” but “the God of peace.”
Christian Friend, 1874