Quotes About Peace

This restored church stands as a symbol of peace and forgiveness.

I ask your forgiveness and the forgiveness of the people of Israel.

The meeting went smoothly and there was a strong (push) to achieve peace from both sides...Both parties agreed to mutual forgiveness.

There are murder victims' family members who go through this process thinking they'll feel peace once the revenge of the death penalty is carried out. What I've learned from meeting with these people is that you don't feel better in revenge. You feel better in forgiveness.

It's an appropriate thing to recognize. I guess the words I would use [are] remembrance and reconciliation. Reconciliation is a tenet of all the faiths and it brings people together and allows for forgiveness. You can't have reconciliation without remembrance.

It was his idea to put in the Western Wall in Jerusalem the prayer asking God's forgiveness for what had been done by Christians in other ages,

Proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Forgiveness is not for the other person, forgiveness is for you.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

It is gratifying to note how scriptural words like justice, peace, forgiveness have become the lingua franca of the peace process,

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.