Quotes About Peace

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war…. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...

at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...

my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...

I believe I am no man's enemy unless he chooses to make me one. For me it's humanity that counts, not the words written in the book of any religion

I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.

Shut in from all the world without,We sat the clean-winged hearth about.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

But dream not helm and harness The sign of valor true; Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

Whatever false sense of security the contraption had once offered us was gone. Each time we left, even for a half hour, we wondered whether this would be the time that our manic inmate would bust out and go on another couch-shredding, wall-gouging, door-eating rampage. So much for peace of mind.

If there is any debate about peace, do not discuss each clause with excessive subtlety, for exactness produces contention and contention excites and ignites the dangerous flames of hatred." Consider the bigger picture and the damage that will accrue to the church if you persist in your quarrel

Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping Of Nature's kind, fostering care, Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, - And peace broods perennial there.