Quotes about Peace

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

When you love what you have, you have everything you need.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.