Quotes about Peace
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.
- Thomas Monson
Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.
- Max Lucado
Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.
- Charles Spurgeon
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
- David O. McKay
Anger is self-immolation.
- Phillips Brooks
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis
Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
- Desmond Tutu
The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
With malice towards none; with charity for all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let tomorrow come tomorrow. Not by your will is the house carried through the night. Order is only the possibility of rest.
- Wendell Berry
Those thoughts come to me in the night, those thought and thoughts of becoming sick or helpless, of the nursing home, of lingering death. I gnaw again the old bones of the fear of what is to come, and grieve with a sisterly grief over Grandmam and Mrs. Feltner and the other old women who have gone before. Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, 'Thy will be done,' and then again I am free and can go to sleep.
- Wendell Berry