Quotes about Peace
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
- John Lennon
Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
- Wendell Berry
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
- Desmond Tutu
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.
- Joyce Meyer
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
- Desmond Tutu
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
- Albert Einstein
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
- William Wordsworth
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
- Desmond Tutu
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
- Ronald Reagan
When I meet a new person, I don't see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.
- Muhammad Ali
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.
- DL Moody