Quotes about Peace

Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave?

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Art to be art must soothe.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Nourish it with good works, give it peace in solitude, get it strength in prayer, make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with psalms and hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections upon future glory.