Quotes related to Isaiah 32:17
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
- CS Lewis
When we live in anything less than righteousness, peace and joy, we are not experiencing everything that our Lord paid for.
- Kris Vallotton
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
- George W. Bush
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.
- Woodrow Wilson
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
- John F. Kennedy
I come not to bring negative peace, but I come to bring positive peace. I come not to bring this old peace which is merely the absence of tension; I come to bring a positive peace which is the presence of justice and the Kingdom of God. Peace is not merely the absence of something, but it's the presence of something.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
- Thomas Paine
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
- Epicurus
The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.
- Victor Hugo
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen