7,293 Quotes About Peace

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

We are that which activates the body.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.