Quotes about Peacemaking

When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the pure-hearted and so on.

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Peacemaking is a noble vocation . . . To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver.

Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.

Peacemaking is also not appeasement. Always giving in, acting like a doormat, and allowing others to always run over you is not what Jesus had in mind. He refused to back down on many issues, standing his ground in the face of evil opposition.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.