7,293 Quotes About Peace
- Author Robinson Jeffers
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Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.
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- Author Sheri Dew
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...I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty--guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard--but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us.
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- Author Kurt Vonnegut
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The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.
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- Author Aberjhani
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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- Author Ben Marcus
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Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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- Author Wallace Stegner
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[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
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- Author A.G. Phillips
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Peace cannot be achieved; they have to be plucked out of their pod.
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- Author A.W. Tozer
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Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone, we still could not lose them. The rough floor of the cave would chafe us, the weather would irritate us and the very silence would cause us to fret
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- Author Cassandra Blizzard
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We can remove the veil that shrouds our understanding and made us forget who we truly are. When we understand the core self and live from the core self, the myth of separation, concepts of separation, color, religion, class, intelligence…all these fade away. We are not our color. We are not our religion. We are not our sexual preference. We are human beings. We are spiritual beings.
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