Quotes About Peace

This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.

The darkness was full, fuller than she would ever have guessed, and she found this curiously comforting.

For a moment Tess imagined she didn't exist. It was surprisingly soothing.

Once you glimpsed the truth about yourself, your understanding was complete and you could finally be at piece.

We would be going to war for peace.

Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still.

Can you not see that it's no longer a question of dragon versus human? The division now is between those who think this peace is worth preserving and those who would keep us at war until one side or the other is destroyed.

Do not bring violence to the sword. Do not bring heartbreak or anger or passion. You hold in your hand the steel of rationality.

Fight in a time of war as the man you want to be in a time of peace.

Like I said, I like having someone here. At night I look out my bedroom window, and seeing a light on in here comforts me." He paused in the doorway. "Sort of like, 'All is well in the world.' That's what light does, you know. Says all is well in the world.

John had no desire to move but to just be. The rain seemed to do more than water the earth tonight. It seemed to water him.

But isn't the core of forgiveness that the debt is paid? You don't owe the offended anymore.

I understand why we sleep. To slip the knot of the world.

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.

Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

What we don't often realize is that stopping to rest is also an act of worship. It's not just something we do for ourselves—something we get to decide if and when it is needed. It's something we do with God, honoring Him.

Solomon's wisdom—flowing from the throne of God—brought the nation peace and prosperity like it had never known before. The forty years when Solomon sat as king were the best years in Israel's history. All because he asked God for wisdom and followed it.

Irrepressible hope, unsurpassable peace, inexplicable joy, unfailing comfort, patient endurance, and amazing grace await us in the dark times if we'll seek Him in them. Finding these treasures, we experience calm despite the storm. We develop spiritual beauty and spiritual strength—and others are drawn to us in their own times of need.

Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe that's what heaven's going to be like..." p 55

I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.

I am a pacifist, danm it! And now I'm bleeding. What is wrong with you, you sick sicko?

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

This is better than being young Nelson,' thought Stephen, ' 'cause this way I'm happy just being myself.

If every one of us will work, strenuously and continuously, until each has purged his heart of every trace of resentment against every person, who has, he thinks, injured him, we shall then find, perhaps to our surprise, that Peace is reigning over the whole world.2