Quotes about Peace
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
- Philip James Bailey
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
- Cicero
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
- William Wordsworth
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
- Philip Yancey
Most people I meet assume that Christian means very conservative, entrenched in their thinking, antigay, antichoice, angry, violent, illogical, empire builders; they want to convert everyone, and they generally cannot live peacefully with anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.
- Philip Yancey
recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.
- Philip Yancey
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
- Philip Yancey
A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.
- Philip Yancey
The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.
- Philip Yancey
I used to worry about falling asleep during prayer. Now, as a parent, I understand. What parent wouldn't want her child to fall asleep in her arms?
- Philip Yancey
Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
- Philip Yancey
Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.
- Philip Yancey