peace that passeth understanding

Definitions

Spiritual enlightenment; religious salvation.

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Examples

“There are but two sorts of peace: there is the world's peace, which is an opiate that stills the conscience for a season — peace, peace, but no peace; and there is the Christian's peace — the peace that passeth understanding.”

“In all its gutters from Frisco to Bombay, Melbourne to Cape Town, the Salvation Army was on the job, inviting harassed and stricken souls to the peace which passeth understanding.”

“The poem ends with the Hindu incantation, like⟳ the first shower of long-looked-for rain⟳, shantih, shantih, shantih, meaning: "The Peace which passeth understanding."”

“The Woodstock apocalypse, as she sees it, was not the peace that passeth understanding that the media made it out to be. Of the 400,000 kids there, most of the potentially disorderly ones were stupefied by drugs.”

“Sri Peetam has an aura of a peace that passeth understanding.”

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