Quotes About Peace

Oh, how good and peacemaking a thing it is to be silent concerning others, and not carelessly to believe all reports, nor to hand them on further; how good also to lay one's self open to few, to seek ever to have Thee as the beholder of the heart; not to be carried about with every wind of words, but to desire that all things inward and outward be done according to the good pleasure of Thy will!

Procura, hijo, hacer antes la voluntad de otro que la tuya. Escoge siempre tener menos que más. Busca siempre el lugar más bajo, y está sujeto a todos. Desea siempre y ruega que se cu1mpla en ti enteramente la divina voluntad. Así entrarás en los términos de la paz y descanso.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall have abundance of peace.

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

A barrage of words does not make the soul happy, but a good life gladdens the mind and a pure conscience generates a bountiful confidence in God.

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

Human law does not prescribe concerning all the acts of every virtue: but only in regard to those that are ordainable to the common good—either immediately, as when certain things are done directly for the common good—or mediately, as when a lawgiver prescribes certain things pertaining to good order, whereby the citizens are directed in the upholding of the common good of justice and peace.

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.

Who is a wretch, or unhappy? He that holdeth not himself content with that that God hath sent him.

If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.

If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.

God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding.