Peace Quotes - Page 30

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

Work for your own soul's sake.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

'We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are renewed by holy Baptism. And Christ the Son of God came into the world for this, that He should call us and take us there, and He is the one thing needful. For this reason your very first endeavor and care should be to receive it. Without it everything is as nothing, though you have the whole world under you.'

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Trees give peace to the souls of men.

Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.