Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

We don't need much imagination to imagine that to be free of hatred, of enmity, of the endless and hopeless effort to oppose violence with violence, would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of indifference would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of the insane rationalizations for our desire to kill one another-that surely would be to have life more abundantly.

What is a peacemaker? Peacemakers are the mercy of God to a sinful world.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

His revolution is about—one that changes a person to be able to do something even that impossible." "Do the others... do they believe as you do?" "Oh yes. The new kingdom will be one of restoration. Of peace. We will no longer have need for instruments of war.

We must share his truth—to change our world. To make it a place filled with love rather than hate. With peace, rather than war. With mercy, rather than revenge. With holiness, rather than evil.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let's be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.