Quotes About Peace

Some people believe that war brings about peace, I believe that peace brings about peace.

Some people say that you should fight fire with fire but I say you should fight fire with water.

You are not truly rich until you have something that money can't buy.

I just wanted peace and quiet. So I waded into the ocean with a bellar in my hand. The waves were cold and kept smacking my clothes, higher and higher, until they knocked my drink out of my hand. Soon, my hair was wet and sticking to the back of my neck. Then I blacked out.

You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that thought deeper into your mind, making it even more of a distraction.

got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.

Inside our heads there is a space which is completely blank. It holds no memories and has no thoughts. Antoinette wanted to find that place for once there, the world no longer has the power to hurt. She wanted to curl up in the cocoon of her bedding until that time came and never have to face reality again.

In the expectation of wonderful things to happen in the future, one doesn't hear the sound of the wind and rain, the breath and heartbeat this instant.

Contento, proprio contento sono stato molte volte nella vita ma più di tutte quando mi hanno liberato in Germania che mi sono messo a guardare una farfalla senza la voglia di mangiarla.

Je veilig voelen, maakt dat gelukkig?

Besides, elvish arms and hands aren't really made for fighting, you know-" "Whose are?" asked Merwen. Kringle looked at her and bowed his head. "None," he said finally. "Maybe soon, everyone will know that.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack. And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

I was born in 1953, a child of the Cold War era, raised amid the constant fear of a conflict with the potential to destroy humanity. Whatever other dangers may exist, no such fear exists today. Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. That is a prize beyond value.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Ephesians 1:2; 6:24

These two verses are the hello and goodbye in the book of Ephesians. The standard greeting before Jesus came on the scene was shalom, the word for God's peace in the Hebrew language.1 Paul and other New Testament writers added grace (charis) to the greeting, making it a very powerful statement.

Seventeen times in the New Testament, some variation of "Grace and peace to you" is used in expressing blessing to God's people. In bringing God's grace to mankind, Jesus also brought the peace every Old Testament believer had sought. The fact that grace is always used first indicates that grace is the root of what God did for us through Jesus, while peace follows as the fruit of His gracious work.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you." (Similar variations of this phrase occur nine times in Romans 16:20,24; 1 Corinthians 16:23; Galatians 6:18; Philippians 4:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:28; 2 Thessalonians 3:18; Philemon 25; and Revelation 22:21.)

Grace be with you" (or you all). (This phrase