Quotes About Peace

grasp the essence of heaven on earth.

The place of your origination is stillness, from which all of creation comes.

I like this quote attributed to Mark Twain: "I'm an old man and I've had many troubles. Most of which have never happened.

Set aside multiple times during your day to stop and ask yourself this key question: Right now in what I am about to say or do, do my desires stem from my lower or my higher self? The ego is all about self-serving, ownership, winning, judging, and so on. The higher self is about serving, loving, and being in a nonjudgmental state of peace.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

forgiveness is a tool that's available to get us back to a God-realized life.

Someone must risk returning injury with kindness, or hostility will never turn to goodwill.

The immediate result of your infinite patience is peace

You might quiet the whole world for a second if you pray. And if you love, if you really love, our guns will wilt.

naturally live a long life in joyful, nonjudgmental peace.

Spend some of your quiet meditation time visualizing a tiny spark of awareness glowing within your being.

Contentment alone is enough. Indeed, the bliss of eternity can be found in your contentment.

Somewhere within the soul there is silence. Attain unto it. It is a pearl of great price.

if we walk far but are angry as we journey, we travel nowhere. If we hold grudges as we scale mountains, our view remains the same.

Anger is a dry riverbed. You should follow it only if it leads you to the springs of forgiveness.

And as I nestled in and drifted off to sleep, my heart felt wonderfully... free.

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

Jesus' military career has never compelled my belief.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.