Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
— Rick Warren
We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
— Marianne Williamson
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
— Philip Yancey
War is not to be waged in the name of God.
— Pope Francis
No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.
— Pope Francis
May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.
— Pope Francis
I do believe that we're all God's children.
— Octavia Spencer
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.
— Hillary Clinton