Quotes about Peace
Her father said, "You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes." "Even at a time like this?" Meg asked. The call from Calvin, the sound of her husband's voice, had nearly broken her control. "Especially at a time like this," her mother said gently.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
— Madeleine L'Engle
there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers
— Madeleine L'Engle
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
— John Wooden
It is never crowded at the mountaintop.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
— Ambrose of Milan
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
— John Milton
Workers, take your place every day at the feet of Jesus, in the blessed peace and rest that come from the knowledge—I have no care, my cares are His! I have no fear, He cares for all my fears.
— Andrew Murray
Every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.
— Andrew Murray
Fear and hope are generally thought to be in conflict with each other, in the presence and worship of God they are found side by side in perfect and beautiful harmony. And this because in God Himself all apparent contradictions are reconciled. Righteousness and peace, judgment and mercy, holiness and love, infinite power and infinite gentleness, a majesty that is exalted above all heaven, and a condescension that bows very low, meet and kiss each other.
— Andrew Murray