Quotes About Peace

God has not left us on our own. Even though we have declared war on him deep in our hearts, he has declared peace with us. This friendship is made possible not because Jesus was born, but because Jesus would die.

It stops hurting so much when you realize how unconstructive hate is.

The best things in life really are free. So, how many kittens do you want?

Sun, silence, and happiness.

And though I continually fight impatience, in all but this vice... I am truly content.

I feel more at peace with being angry than practicing forgiveness. That never was an honest emotion for me. It was always someone else's concept of what I should do.

Trying to forgive all these years, I had suppressed my anger and memories because I couldn't forgive if I acknowledged my experiences

One of the most dangerous things about forgiveness is that it undercuts your ability to let go of your pent-up emotions.

It can change the way you feel about things," Eleanor reminded her. "A walk by the sea is always good for the soul.

Sometimes it's quite enough simply to be happy.

they were that rarest of human creatures: genuinely happy people.

When we refuse to obey God, when we are driven by our own desires, it is no surprise that rest and contentment elude us. When we follow Christ in obedience and humility, we find rest for our souls.

Contentment is a deep satisfaction with the will of God.

Contentment disarms a situation that could become stressful. Contentment protects the unity and fellowship we have in Christ.

Contentment is the result of spiritual strength that comes directly from Christ.

The focus of contentment is Christ. The focus of discontent is the trouble.

I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

To a righteous man, death is like a night sleep. He suffer no where else.

There's a sort of constant ease, as if it's high summer all the time inside her.

How quickly people forget the taste of freedom, swapping it for this easy comfortable thing they call peace. Sleep is peaceful. Death is peaceful. Freedom is life and wakefulness.

They] fall asleep like that, legs intertwined, underneath a found blanket, in the center of a war.

the sound of the ocean is quiet as a mother shushing her baby,

Mark said to me once, "She's like God to you: she inexplicably calms inexplicable fears.

But consider this: are patriarchies peaceful because men are peaceful? Or do more peaceful societies tend to allow men to rise to the top because they place less value on the capacity for violence? Just asking the question.