Peace Quotes - Page 5

The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

There is Truth, the truth of the Truth and there is Peace. The Truth is 'the boy stole an apple', the truth of the Truth is 'the boy was hungry' and Peace is 'nobody stole anything, now, give the boy an apple!'

If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

My religion is to live and die without regret.