Peace Quotes

Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world.

~ Amit Ray

Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

~ Elizabeth George

Build bridges, not walls.

~ Suzy Kassem

And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen.

~ Elizabeth George

We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all linked up unconsciously with each other and with the masses, man, there's been this unanimous worldwide decision to trash the planet and get on to a new one.

~ Denis Johnson

We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.

~ Josh Thompson

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I believe that love and peace are the right way to confront tyranny.

~ Nihad Sirees

Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.

~ Dara Torres

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

~ Howard Fast

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

~ Stewart L. Udall

We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic presence – as a changeable, interactive thing?If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.I can wash dishes.

~ Rachel Corrie

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.

~ Criss Jami

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

~ Gary L. Francione

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

~ Christopher Pike

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

~ Criss Jami

All matters being spiritual, man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.

~ T.f. Hodge

Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize.

~ Sorin Cerin

Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

~ Sinclair Lewis

Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but the Soul of me—the wild, restless, breathless, discontented soul of me—never sat down before in all its life—I say, until my frightened hand cuddled into his broken one. I tell you I don't pretend to explain it, I don't pretend to account for it; all I know is—that smothering there under all that horrible wreckage and everything—the instant my hand went home to his, the most absolute sense of serenity and contentment went over me.

~ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

~ Elizabeth George

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

~ Amy Waldman

Eternal peace is hell for the adventurers.

~ Toba Beta

The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. (Fear)

~ P.c. Wren

Peace obtained with conflicts management.

~ Toba Beta

There is no peace without power.

~ Toba Beta

But blaming Islam is a simple answer, easier and less controversial than re-examining the core political issues and grievances that resonate in much of the Muslim world: the failures of many Muslim governments and societies, some aspects of U.S. foreign policy representing intervention and dominance, Western support for authoritarian regimes, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, or support for Israel's military battles with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. (p. 136-137)

~ John L. Esposito

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

~ Muriel Rukeyser

Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.

~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

You are the stories and incidents that you never tell to anyone. You are the thoughts that you get while standing under theshower. You are those memories that won't lets you sleep at night peacefully. You are those words that you will never say while speaking with someone. You are those scars that you always hide from everyone. You are those little secrets that you will never let the world know. You are everything that you hide under the identity that you call the real you.

~ Akshay Vasu

Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an us and them view of the world. (p. 135)

~ John L. Esposito

I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.

~ Aidan Chambers

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose.From Philip Speaks

~ Caryll Houselander

Live simply so others may simply live

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?

~ Suzy Kassem