Quotes About Peacemaking

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.

One of the chief tasks of our time must surely be to build a global community in which all peoples can live together in mutual respect; yet religion, which should be making a major contribution, is seen as part of the problem.

My father helped you with that. . that thing you do?" "Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living.

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.

I was never the bully: I was always the one trying to clean up the situation.

Peacemaking is also not appeasement. Always giving in, acting like a doormat, and allowing others to always run over you is not what Jesus had in mind. He refused to back down on many issues, standing his ground in the face of evil opposition.

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Having won over his own people—in itself no mean feat, for they were a disparate bunch, drawn from all manner of creeds, colors, and tribes—he then went out and won over the enemy.

My own efforts at peacemaking have been easy - in fact, rather enjoyable: CND marches, demos, protest meetings in Trafalgar and Grosvenor Squares, and visits to the women at Greenham, especially the glorious day in 1983 when thousands of us embraced the base and pinned beautiful pictures and objects to the ugly wire.

Let thy words between two foes be such that if they were to become friends thou shouldst not be ashamed.

Stop, you boys," cried Henry. "Don't fight the minute you meet." "Well, Mike started it," shouted Benny. "I did not! You started it," shouted Mike. "Boys!" said Henry. "Stop this minute. Aren't you friends?" "We're friends

Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.

Never stand in the middle of two people having a fight, because you'll always come off worse.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.

Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.

Peacemaking is a noble vocation . . . To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver.

The United States is undergoing a transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world. We are becoming a nation that has no more negotiators and peacemakers, that shoots first and asks questions later.

There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.

The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.

Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.

I acknowledge the efficacy of a kind of peacemaking, especially in the hothouse climate of so many American schools. However, strength and honor more dependably keep the peace than does palaver about psychic posture and moral equivalence.

If you believe that God is watching over you with perfect love and unlimited power, you will be able to serve him faithfully as a peacemaker, even in the most difficult circumstances.