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Quotes About Peace

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.
~ Rajneesh
Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.
~ Rosie Fellner
Where there is fear there is no religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.
~ Sebastian Barry
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
~ Albert Einstein
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
~ Bertrand Russell
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
~ Bill Murray
Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the brother and sisterhood of mankind.
~ Cat Stevens
There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
~ Tony Blair
Yoga is not a religion to me.
~ Christy Turlington
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
~ William Wordsworth
No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.
~ Tim Soutphommasane
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
~ Desmond Tutu
No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.
~ Elisabeth Marbury
It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.
~ Eliza Griswold
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love.
~ Debasish Mridha
Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
~ George Santayana
Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind...
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl
~ Sophie Scholl
Prayerful life, blessed life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas