Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Peace is its own reward.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

All men hate the nagging.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.