Quotes about Peace

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot hinder the sun to rise: some are so near heaven, that the everlasting Sun hath begun to make an everlasting day of glory on them; the rays that come from his face that sits on the throne, so over-goldeth the soul, that there is no possibility of clouding peace, or of hindering daylight in the souls of such.

To live on Christ's love is a king's life.

Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ's bosom.

I pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change God - it changes me.

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.