Quotes About Peace

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

3) Take a vacation from your grievances. (4) The regularity of it isn't totally worthless.

Only rarely, at the end of our century, does life offer up a vision as pure and peaceful as this one: a solitary man on a bucket, fishing through eighteen inches of ice in a lake that's constantly turning over its water atop an arcadian mountain in America.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.

A Franciscan Benediction

I used to worry about falling asleep during prayer. Now, as a parent, I understand. What parent wouldn't want her child to fall asleep in her arms?

Amar la justicia es hacerla crecer, no vengarla

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.

I relish the sense of being alone with nature, knowing that of all people in the world only I am hearing these sounds in this place. The tranquil mood feels vaguely religious, what I should be feeling in church but rarely do. In

When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.

the sound of a man forgiving.

Caught up in righteous—and wholly appropriate—revulsion over Serbian atrocities, the world overlooks one fact: the Serbs are simply following the terrible logic of unforgiveness.

There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.

Be still and know that I am God." I read in this familiar verse from Psalm 46 two commands of equal importance. First, I must be still, something that modern life conspires against. Ten years ago I responded to letters within a couple of weeks and kept my correspondents happy. Five years ago I faxed a response in a couple of days and they seemed content. Now they want email responses the same day and berate me for not using instant messaging or a mobile phone.

Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.

forgiveness is an act of faith.

By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.