Quotes About Peace

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee,and give thee peace. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

America has become accustomed to a permanent state of war. Only a small slice of society—including many poor and rural teenagers—fight and die, while a permanent national security elite rotates among senior government posts, contracting companies, think tanks, and television commentary, opportunities that would disappear if America was suddenly at peace. To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

How does one find peace outside the bounds of the Church?" "Acceptance and mindfulness

The warmth and peace she had experienced before had nothing to do with gifts or blessings. It was this human touch. The warmth of family, the peace of self and certainty. That was blessing enough for anyone.

But no death rode this breeze.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu duIs jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

I watched you while you were sleeping and you looked completely at peace. I wish I could feel that. I wish I could close my eyes and feel at peace. But I can't. I can't feel anything if I'm not with you, and even then all I can do is want something that I don't think I can ever have, at least not now. so I left this, and my peace, with you. Stark.

Walls don't work. … Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Forgive us all our trespasses,Little creatures, everywhere!

Be at peace all of you, for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the strange away in the night.

He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.

An elegant sufficiency, content,Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.