Peace Quotes - Page 73

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

The life of "peace" is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background might be. One of the common denominators of greatness is acknowledging that dependence. As power comes from Charity, power also comes from knowing who you are, a divine offspring of a divine being.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.