“To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.”
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“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
“The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.”
“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”
“It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.”
“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.”
“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.”
“I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.”
“The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.”
“I declare that I will establish peace in this world.”
“Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.”
“Peace is the first thing the angels sang.”
“Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.”
“You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.”
“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.”
“Power to the peaceful!”
“The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.”
“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.”
“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
“We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.”
“One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.”
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”
“A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.”