Quotes about Peace

In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.

And so long as we give ourselves to faith in him, with calm and quiet minds, he will not permit the wicked to injure us with impunity.

One advice I give: Beware of Antichrist; for, unhappily, a love of walls has seized you; unhappily, the Church of God which you venerate exists in houses and buildings; unhappily, under these you find the name of peace. Is it doubtful that in these Antichrist will have his seat?

The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding - the bright hope of good things to come - the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us - the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen - these are true gold, and lasting riches.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.