Quotes about Peace
Only in restoring the web of connection can we find peace. I'm sure it is possible to heal in a mountaintop cave alone, but for most of us the quickest and deepest healing happens in the embrace of others.
— Desmond Tutu
We choose to either walk the path of revenge and be bound to suffering, or take the path of forgiveness and be freed into healing.
— Desmond Tutu
War is just an effect, not a cause.
— Marianne Williamson
I'm enjoying simplifying things.
— Jennifer Aniston
As the Christ for all human beings, Jesus takes hold of our divided and peaceless human society at its lowest point, among the miserable, the despised and the unimportant.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
— Pope John Paul II
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
— Martin Luther
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
— Henri Nouwen
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
— Rob Bell
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
— Pope John Paul II
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
— Deepak Chopra
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.
— Stanley Hauerwas