Quotes about Peace
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
— Elbert Hubbard
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
— Elie Wiesel
Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
— Oscar Romero
PEACE is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
— Oscar Romero
If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.
— Arianna Huffington
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
— Muhammad Ali
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
— Evelyn Underhill
Laughter is God's blessing.
— Joseph Prince
The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love.
— Frederick Buechner