Quotes About Peace

World Peace Prayer movement.

Purified Annie Hunt, spiritualized Annie Hunt. Purified Annie Hunt, spiritualized Annie Hunt. Purified Annie Hunt, spiritualized Annie Hunt. How can we thank you? May peace prevail on Earth. On behalf of humanity, we thank the love of the universe for the purified existence of Annie Hunt.

Anger and hatred and condemnation are not symbols of alignment with God—but indicators of misalignment with that which you call God.

stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.

You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.

war doesn't end war any more than a heroin fix ends a heroin addiction.

people struggle because we don't know where we belong, and we always assume that home lies somewhere other than here and now, a mistake that sets us on an exhausting commute.

Self-surrender sometimes has the potential for happiness. Submission never does.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Es gibt Augenblicke, in denen ich mich wie ein kleiner Vogel in einer großen schützenden Hand geborgen fühle. Gestern war mein Herz ein in der Falle gefangener Vogel. Jetzt ist der Vogel wieder frei und fliegt ungehindert über alles hinweg. Heute scheint die Sonne. Und jetzt packe ich mein Brot ein und mache mich auf den Weg.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: To reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world." -Etty Hillesum Journals, Amsterdam, 1941

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Everything tells me that I need to live a more solitary life. The loveliest and most precious moments of my life are slipping away in amusements which, in truth, bring me nothing but boredom. (Sunday 4 April 1824)

A Solidão não é forçosamente Negativa, pelo contrário, até me parece um Privilégio. Talvez a minha Solidão seja Excessiva, mas eu Detestei sempre as coisas Mundanas. Estar com as Pessoas apenas para gastar as Horas é-me Insuportável…

In writing I am fulfilling an obligation I have long felt to my comrades in the 1st Marine Division, all of whom suffered so much for our country. None came out unscathed. Many gave their lives, many their health, and some their sanity. All who survived will long remember the horror they would rather forget. But they suffered and they did their duty so a sheltered homeland can enjoy the peace that was purchased at such high cost. We owe those Marines a profound debt of gratitude.

At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.

When besieged, I'm calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I'm collected and cool.

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Sin destroys our capacity to live. It weakens our vitality. ... It incapacitates us from living out a healthy love and a vigorous peace. We need deliverance from it. God provides deliverance from it, decade after decade, generation after generation, 'according to the will of our God and Father.

Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

A book on God has for its title The God Who Stands, Stoops and Stays. That summarizes the posture of blessing: God stands—he is foundational and dependable; God stoops—he kneels to our level and meets us where we are; God stays—he sticks with us through hard times and good, sharing his life with us in grace and peace.

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. A