You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti
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.
Arthur Henderson
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
Arthur Henderson
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mahatma Gandhi
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon
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From the Moravian Daily Texts
Watchword for the Week Jesus says, my grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.¯ 2 Corinthians 12:9
Sunday, July 8 Ezekiel 2:1-5; Psalm 123 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13
Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on? Habakkuk 2:6 (NIV)
Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Ephesians 4:28
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