Quotes about Peace
Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.
— Pope Francis
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'
— Ronald Reagan
Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.
— Pope Francis
O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
Violence and war lead only to death.
— Pope Francis
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