Quotes about Peace

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the world.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

God's finger touched him and he slept.