Quotes About Peace

When your soul is satisfied, you have everything even if you have nothing. And when your soul is not at peace, you have nothing no matter what you have attained or acquired.

Times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:20).

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than War, War is better than tribute.

Gratitude, peace, and joy are ways that God communicates with us. During these times, we are feeling a real connection with God, though we might not initially identify it as such. The key insight is accepting that these are ways that God is communicating with us. That is, the first step involves a bit of trust.

Every state of life, every decision, includes some pain that must be accepted if you are to enter fully into those decisions, and into new life. "All symphonies remain unfinished," said Karl Rahner. There is no perfect decision, perfect outcome, or perfect life. Embracing imperfection helps us relax into reality. When we accept that all choices are conditional, limited, and imperfect, our lives become, paradoxically, more satisfying, joyful, and peaceful.

What would you concede if it didn't matter who got the credit? What would no longer matter if you were not hostage to the accomplishment tally? How much peace could you claim by trusting that the choices that you made for goodness would ultimately turn out right? Just picture the freedom that comes with living a surrendered life.

Ignatius realized that if you act in accord with God's desires for you, you will naturally feel a sense of peace.

Pay attention to physical feelings as well. Recently, I chatted with Matt, a young Jesuit in training, who had just directed a retreat for a group of young adults and spoke with them about how to listen to God. In addition to feelings of peace and comfort, and even inexplicable and incommunicable feelings, Matt added bodily feelings, another indication of God's presence.

As David Lonsdale writes, we feel peace about a particular decision when it is "coherent with" God's desires for our happiness. Ignatius understood that God works through our deepest desires. When we are following that path to God, things seem right. Things feel in synch because they are in synch.

I'm not shooting for happy. I'm aiming for comfortable and fat.

Asking a question whose echo has been heard each time America went to war since, Goldman said, "How else is the world to take America seriously when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, and peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform?

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

It is the impulse of a finite player to go against another nation in war, it is the design of an infinite player to oppose war within a nation.

Paulie Pastrami learned that a misunderstanding could often be settled with a cupcake.

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." — Marianne Williamson

JEREMIAH 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.