Quotes About Peace

Each year, about 45 million people are affected by war. Three hundred thousand people die looking down the barrel of a gun - and 200,000 of these are killed in countries ostensibly at peace.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Every war makes other wars more likely.

Actually it is the way in which men always, everywhere, keep the peace, when no one of them has a recognized right to use force. Then each one feels his responsibility. This is the way Americans kept the peace on the frontier, and keep it now on fishing and hunting trips and in clubrooms.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart.

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

Svetlana felt that something had changed in her. "Some inner line of demarcation" had been drawn. Something was totally lost. She did not yet know what this meant. Oddly, she also felt a kind of peace. She did not cry.

Quietness rose within Aquila, easing his wild unrest as the salve was cooling the smart of his gashed side. But that was always the way with Brother Ninnias-- the quietness, the sense of sanctuary, were things that he carried with him.

Every day I yearn to focus more on heaven's beauty and worry less about earth's ugliness.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

No more guns for you.

I turned on my back and floated": The Drowning Pool

In many two-parent families, one parent is primarily disposed toward imposition of adult will (convinced that more authority would get things squared away), and the other is primarily disposed toward just letting things go (having become convinced that more authority is only making things worse and that family peace is more important than compliance).

For the Christian the environment can only truly be changed as men are changed, and these men then remake their world and place it under God's law. For the Marxist men are changed by changing the environment, because man is only a reflex of his environment, not a lord over it. Between these two positions there can be no peace nor any coexistence.

The postmillennial view, while seeing rises and falls in history, sees it moving to the triumph of the people of Christ, the church triumphant from pole to pole, the government of the whole world by the law of God, and then, after a long and glorious reign of peace, the Second Coming and the end of the world.

prayer is in significant part about resolving conflict and rivalry. If people prayed seriously they would be reconciled.

from the Stone Age on, the weapons of war and the chase have been interchangeable, and one activity has been a preparation and training for the other. In modern war we learn to kill each other at great distances and on a scale which actually threatens the life of our own species. In intervals of peace we proceed to turn the technology so developed … against the lower animals.

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

Before, I'd see a pile of papers and wouldn't know what the hell was in them and just be like, Oh, my God," Carey says. "The day I got to zero, which is GTD talk for having nothing in your in-box—no phone messages, no e-mails, nothing, not a piece of paper—when I got to that point, I felt like the world got lifted off my shoulders. I felt like I had just come out of meditating in the desert, not a care in the world. I just felt euphoric.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.