Quotes about Peace
I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
— Tony Campolo
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lose yourself in nature and find peace.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ.
— Randy Alcorn
British preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834—1892) said, "Those who are 'beloved of the Lord' must be the most happy and joyful people to be found anywhere upon the face of the earth.
— Randy Alcorn
I'm not always happy, any more than I'm always holy. But by God's grace, I'm happier in Christ now than I've ever been.
— Randy Alcorn