peace quotes

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

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

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Going home helps the content.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

On all the peaks lies peace.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

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

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.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

We are not at war against Islam.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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.

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 not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.