Quotes About Peace

The few poignant moments before the battle, before the gas chamber... these little meetings of kindred spirits, without a past to give them guidance or a future to give them hope, they would find a measure of peace and coherence to lend a reason to the farcical affairs of mankind. Man, in all his wild adventures, had not, as yet, discovered a substitute for faith.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

I am a peace supporting Jew.

I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.

Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.

The one and only skill that resolves the crisis of meaning is that of acceptance.

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: "Can I please get some peace and quiet, please?

Maybe, Reshmina thought, they wouldn't fight at all. Maybe they would spend their time doing something else instead, like building factories and schools and hospitals.

What would happen, Reshmina wondered, if the big countries stopped selling weapons to the little countries?

Religion must be defended not by killing but by dying, not by violence but by patience.

Tertullian recounts the narrative of Jesus, whose labors (unlike Hercules's) did not include killing, capturing, and stealing43 but who instead kept a low profile, who bore reproaches, who would not hear of forcing people, who ate at anyone's table, who declined to call for massive angelic intervention, who rejected the avenging sword, who healed the servant of his enemy, and thereby "cursed for all time the works of the sword.

PEOPLE SEARCH relentlessly for a "city of happiness"—not realizing that it could only be found in a "state of mind." —RABBI AVRAHAM PAM (1913–2001)

Who is rich?" asks Ben Zoma,17 and he answers, "One who is content with his lot.

A PERSON WHO has gained peace of mind has gained everything. To obtain peace of mind, you need to be at peace with the people in your environment. You need to be at peace with yourself, with your emotions and desires. Furthermore, you need to be at peace with your Creator. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Happy the eyes that can close

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. —1 PETER 3:9

Prepare for war, I thought, and pray for peace.

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

She found in him the peace she so desperately sought but never really found in herself.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.