Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.
— Hillary Clinton
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
— Thomas Jefferson
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
— Frederick Douglass
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
— Ricky Gervais
When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.
— Norman Vincent Peale
One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.
— Pope Francis
Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
— Wendell Berry
Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.
— George W. Bush
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
— Desmond Tutu
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
— Albert Einstein
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
— Desmond Tutu
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
— Edmund Burke