Quotes about Peace
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prayer loosens the grip of envy on our hearts.
- Alistair Begg
Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.
- Alistair Begg
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, we need to pray and lead from our spirits and not our emotions - and definitely not with our weapons.
- Alveda King
Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.
- Mike Huckabee
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers
The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.
- Jim Elliot
My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
- Jimmy Carter
I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.
- John Wesley