Quotes about Peace
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
— Desmond Tutu
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
— Albert Einstein
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
— William Wordsworth
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
— Desmond Tutu
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
— Ronald Reagan
When I meet a new person, I don't see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.
— Muhammad Ali
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.
— DL Moody
We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.
— Harry S. Truman
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
— Dorothy Sayers
Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.
— George Whitefield