Quotes About Peace

When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle.

If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

So many times, in our despair, we see our pain as something that will never end. In fact, this often defines our moments of despair: when we believe that our pain contains the rest of us. In contrast, there is this sense of peace to work toward: the belief that our life contains our pain.

Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

After a child's worst day, he or she still looks completely beautiful and innocent in sleep

Every Christian must be a broken person. To enter the kingdom, we must acknowledge that the inner peace we yearn for can never come by our own efforts but only by admitting we are powerless to conquer our self-centeredness and by turning over the rule of our life to Christ. Our sinful hearts show themselves through what we do and what we fail to do. We end up broken not only because we are victims but also because we have hearts of rebellion and stubborn independence.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

They have not been persecuted, and show no fear of man. You pass among them as though you were wind, spindrift, sunlight, leaves.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Every woman stayed alone in her house in those days, like a coin in a safe. Amy and I lived alone with our mother most of the day. Amy was three years younger than I. Mother and Amy and I went our separate ways in peace.

James discovered that there is nothing so congenial to lucid thought as a clear view of the sea. It aired his mind, tuned his nerves and scoured his soul. He determined always to live in sight of it.

It's more like... It keeps the world out so I can be in my own thoughts.

Bello es lo que se contempla

Mientras que las iglesias siempre están vacías, a muchas personas no les importa desplazarse para celebrar la eucaristía en un bello paisaje montañoso, en medio de la naturaleza. Allí experimentan la proximidad de Dios. Y una calma que les fascina.

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.

There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.

You got used to a bit of peace and you got used to a bit of extra pretty polly.

I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.

How can one fade out in peace, carrying vast ignorance into a state of total ignorance?