Quotes related to Psalm 85:10
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
— Graham Greene
Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.
— Pope Francis
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.
— Harry S. Truman
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Without justice, there can be no peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Another name for peace is development.
— Pope John Paul II
If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
— Desmond Tutu