Quotes About Peace

Sit in silence and the world is yours.

Holding on brings tension, letting go brings peace. We already know it, we just don't trust it.

It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could—literally—no longer keep still.

What I will argue is that, throughout the New Testament, faith, as a practice, is about faithfulness even to the point of suffering and death; love, as a practice, has a distinctive, Christlike shape of siding with the weak and eschewing domination in favor of service; and hope, as a practice, means living peaceably (which includes nonviolently) and making peace. Thus the summary triad "faithfulness, love, and peace" is appropriate.

Moreover, Revelation tells us not only who is really sovereign but also what kind of sovereignty the true God exercises, namely what many have called nonviolent and non-coercive "Lamb power

Both men were at peace with their cause, seeking no greater glory than service itself. They reached a state where their internal compass controlled their external behavior.

Roman rule possessed the following principles: -put no pressure on others to conform, -destroy no cultural traditions, -suppress no difference of language, -impose the way of peace, -build an institutional framework strong enough to be taken for granted as people go about their daily concerns, -enable representation of all people in government and allow their ambitions to be fulfilled.530

In a time when world agreement is so necessary and yet so hard to realize, Rome recalls the one period when it was almost realized, a period which (some) considered the happiest in human history."516 Robert Broughton

Why do you cling to the guilt and deny the love? Why are love and peace more difficult to embrace than pain and discord?

To enjoy happiness, therefore, all our mind need do is to cease all activity, returning calmly to its natural state of inactive being, as it does daily in deep sleep.

Surak teaches us to find order in chaos," Spock pointed out. "He does not teach us to try to eliminate chaos or impose order on it.

If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness… I expect it will come from the artists. – Karl Paulnack, 2004

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden.

Because marijuana is so efficient at cutting off all authentic awareness of our emotional body condition, it allows us to actually believe we are peace-loving people.

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

There can be no light without darkness, no calm without the storm, no peace without war. Others will come, as they always have, and it will be up to us to drive them back into the shadows so that the covenant can be renewed once more.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

History shows that democracies rarely go to war with each other.6 So a democratic Russia would no longer be an enemy of the United States. A

Sleep is the best meditation." ? Dalai Lama Quote