Quotes about Peace

The myth of heaven indicates peace and night. The myth of heaven indicates the soul; The soul is always beautiful . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . it comes or lags behind

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

Prayer is the key to each new day and the lock for every night.

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

In solitude, we lose our loneliness.

Here on the river I have known peace and beauty such as I never knew in any other place. There is always work here that I need to be doing and I have many worries, for life on the edge seems always threatening to go over the edge. But I am always surprised, when I look back on times here that I know to have been laborious or worrisome or sad, to discover that they were never out of the presence of peace and beauty, for here I have been always in the world itself.

The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.

The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend. Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us by Your will, not ours. And it is fit Our only choice should be to die Into that rest, or out of it.

Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.

Hatred and anger does not kill hatred and anger.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.