Quotes about Peace
Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
— Wayne Dyer
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.
— Marianne Williamson
Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real.
— India Arie
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
— Desmond Tutu
I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
— Henry David Thoreau
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Peace is the deep, inner, eternal stability the believer possesses by virtue of relationship with Jesus, a sense of balance that's not subject to external circumstance. It's also the quality that enables us to live harmoniously with others.
— Priscilla Shirer
when we talk about the peace of God, don't think of singing and swaying and holding hands in a circle. The peace of God is strong, intense, palpable, real. You can sense its stable presence giving you inner security despite insecure circumstances.
— Priscilla Shirer
Among the tragedies of our time is humanity's pursuit of personal peace apart from God's enabling grace. That pursuit takes many forms: material, intellectual, social, even religious; but they all end in futility. When sinners find peace through God's grace, that is beautiful, that is cause for rejoicing! "Grace . . . and peace" is the proper Christian greeting and celebration (v. 2).
— Kent Hughes
Our experience of rest is proportionate to our trusting in him.
— Kent Hughes