Peace Quotes - Page 54

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.

We must become the change we want to see.

Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.

More than guided missiles, all the world needs guided men.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.