Quotes About Peace

Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.

Why do we rush about… looking for God who is here at home with us, if all we want is to be with him?

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Forgiveness is God's command.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.

Pray, and let God worry.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace.

The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

So, we, at this day, when we thought we should have found favor among our own countrymen, for that we preached unto them the gospel of peace, life, and eternal salvation; instead of favor, we have found bitter and cruel hatred.

In the third section, you proceed to turn us into modest and peace-loving Epicureans.

It did not please me, either, that the Christians and the princes were driven, urged, and irritated into attacking the Turk and making war on him, before they amended their own ways and lived like true Christians.

The Christian should always think: 'If peace and tranquility reign today, it will be different tomorrow. The devil can shoot a dart into my heart, or some other affliction can befall me. Therefore I must see to it that when sorrows appear, I am prepared to weather the storm and draw comfort from God's Word.

to live in good morals means calm and peace for the conscience, however much disquiet there may be in the flesh in public.

He who sleeps does not sin.

Then comes in that other part of Scripture, the promises of God, which declare the glory of God, and say, "If you wish to fulfil the law, and, as the law requires, not to covet, lo! believe in Christ, in whom are promised to you grace, justification, peace, and liberty.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.