peace quotes

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

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.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

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.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

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.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

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

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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

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

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.

Peace begins with a smile.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

No violent extreme endures.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.