Quotes About Peace

There is one God.One humanity.We must come together in unity

I feel like I'm always trying to keep control of my life. Sometimes I'd like to be able to just let go and fall.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

This day, Lord, I thank You that I am in You and You are in me. Thank You that no matter how I feel, I abide in You. Thank You, Lord, that it is not a position I must struggle to maintain, for You have put me there. This moment is all I will be concerned for. I accept my position of abiding with joy."

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). The peace that Jesus brings is divine peace, the peace of God, the only peace worthy of the name. Divine peace is the only permanent peace. Divine peace is that kind of peace you feel inside even when the world is falling apart all around you.

The cross of Christ gave power to the powerless. It gave strength to the weak. It brought salvation to repentant sinners. It brought hope to the hopeless. It gave peace to troubled hearts. What was true then it is still true today.

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I had lived a completely unremarkable life. I wanted only my home, and the love and safety of those around me, nothing else. I knew there was no particular reason why I was put on this earth, but here I was and I was glad to be here, awed by the beauty of it. It was a perfect moment. (p.99)

what you wanted more than anything right then, was simply to sleep in your own bed, eat in your own kitchen, sit on your own toilet. You wanted to stop seeing the world. You wanted to see your world. So we would drive.

We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Dans une guerre il n'y a ni vainqueurs ni vaincus: rien que des victimes.

Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content.

On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast.

quando voltei para a cama estava quase sereno, tanto quanto, no meio das nossas tragédias, nos tranquiliza a existência de outras a que fomos poupados.

avea alt? patologie, alt? poveste, aÈ™a c? m-am culcat aproape liniÈ™tit, fiindc? ne liniÈ™teÈ™te s? vedem, în mijlocul dramelor noastre, existenÈ›a altor drame, de care am fost scutiÈ›i.

Eu suspeitava que o que o atraía no mosteiro não era tanto a possibilidade de escapar ao chamamento dos prazeres carnais, mas sobretudo a possibilidade de se livrar da esgotante e taciturna sucessão de pequenas preocupações da vida quotidiana (...). Ao menos, no mosteiro, dão-nos cama, mesa e roupa lavada - e como bónus, no melhor dos casos, a vida eterna.

The thought of having become an item in a file calms me. I imagine the volume, its cloth binding; its slightly sad cover; I gently flatten myself between the pages; I am squashed.

En una palabra, debemos alcanzar la libertad de la indiferencia, condición que hace posible la perfecta serenidad.

Mas, paradoxalmente, uma vez que o pior parecia ter sido atingido, o real apareceu em sua total dimensão. Há uma paz em saber que um além do pior está totalmente excluído.

I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they prefer the comforting fairy tales of children to the cruel hard facts of adults. Better the faith that brings peace of mind than the rationality that brings worry--even at the price of perpetual mental infantilism. What a demonstration of metaphysical sleight of hand--and what a monstrous price!

He told himself, too, that it was good to sleep in a bed you know well after a long day rife with emotions.

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

Precious is sleep, better to be of stone, while the oppression and the shame still last; not seeing and not hearing, I am blest; so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.