Quotes About Peace

Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace. The

After the emotional turbulence of the past week, it was good to be surrounded by a bit of normality.

Por primera vez en la vida, intenté no pensar en el futuro. Intenté existir sin más, dejar que las sensaciones de la noche me invadieran.

It was nice to feel something other than anxiety, or mute fury, the twin emotions that seemed to make up so much of my daily life.

Here, I could hear my thoughts. I could almost hear my heartbeat. I realized, to my surprise, that I quite liked it.

Sometimes I feel I could stay in the woods for ever.' He nodded. 'I often think,' he said, 'that when you're out here at daybreak you can pretend you're the only person in the world.

According to Paul, contentment is precisely what you and I are to study (Philippians 4:11). "Learn to be content," he tells us, understanding that if we're not content where we are today, we'll not be content wherever we plan on going tomorrow.

do something a whole lot simpler: Just put on Jesus. He is the Truth (John 14:6). He is our Breastplate of Righteousness (Romans 13:14). He guides our feet in peace (Luke 1:79). He is our Shield of Faith (Hebrews 12:2). He is the Captain of our Salvation (Hebrews 2:10). He is the Word Made Flesh (John 1:14). It's all wrapped up in Him.

If you believe on Him whom the Father hath sent, you will indeed be one who, regardless of what's happening around you externally,

Speak for me. Help me to make the decisions that I cannot make. Do not ask me to tell you when it's time for me to go, for that is beyond my simple province. I love you and trust you, and I have depended on you all of my life to make decisions for me. Now, when I need you the most, do not fail me. Whatever you decide, I know it will be your best decision, and I wish you nothing but peace with it.

I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace.

happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

May the Lord give you peace," was Francis's most common remark to people. What a contrast this was to the apocalyptic fear-mongering of most other wandering spiritual groups in those days, and how different it was even from the doctrinaire preaching of the new Dominican Order.

they were happy, in the ordinary ways which had evaded them for so long.

In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists;

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

If we care about knowledge, freedom and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized checking by an error-seeking social network—is the only legitimate validator of knowledge, at least in the reality-based community.

I en stad där de flesta fortsätter att leva sina liv som om inget hänt, utan att ens veta vad som pågår, insjuknar unga män, magrar av, tynar bort och dör. Ja, det är som ett krig som utkämpas i fredstid.

mano namai yra visas pasaulis, visa naktis yra mano guolis.

Aš turiu laiko - visas laikas yra mano, aš metais ži?riu ? gelton? liepos žyd?jim?, neskub?damas ir nesir?pindamas.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life

It would be a long ten days before Sadat and Begin were in the same room at the same time again. In the meantime, Carter would meet for many hours alone with each one, a level of personal diplomacy unmatched by any other American president.