Quotes about Peace

We should do nothing for revenge, but everything for security: nothing for the past; everything for the present and the future.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who has freed his heart from its lusts and hatreds and dark desires; and he who, without any shadow of bitterness or selfishness resting upon him, and looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe in his inmost heart, the blessing: Peace unto all living things.

Man is shut out from Heaven and Peace and Truth only in so far as he shuts out others from his sympathy. Where his sympathy ends his darkness and torment and turmoils begin.

Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)

In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength

Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live.

combat worry, such as keeping a prayer journal and rereading it when I'm under attack.