Quotes About Peace

Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way.

Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged, Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden, Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior, still our refuge, Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!

Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.

In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done; In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished, patience won; And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall, Ere thou listen, ere thou answer, Turn to Jesus, tell Him all.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

I never said "I want to be alone." I only said,"I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.