Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
All works of love are works of peace.
— Mother Teresa
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.
— Oscar Romero
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
— Thomas Merton
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cry for peace will increase according to scripture.
— David Wilkerson
You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.
— Malala Yousafzai
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
— John Lennon
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!
— Pope Francis
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
— Abraham Lincoln
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
— George W. Bush
May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.
— Pope Francis