Quotes About Peacemaking

#1. Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#3. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.

Tom DeLay

#5. There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.

John Prendergast

#6. But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.

Erna Paris

#7. Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#8. My father helped you with that. that thing you do?" "Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living.

G.A. Aiken

#9. Eating together is an occasion that humans have made into a peacemaking ritual;

Paul Theroux

#10. Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Pope Francis

#11. I dislike untidy wars, as I dislike untidy peacemaking.

Dorothy Dunnett

#12. That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.

Brian D. McLaren

#13. Peacemaking is a noble vocation ... To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver.

Billy Graham

#14. How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.

Oscar Arias

#15. Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Henri Nouwen

#16. Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Henri Nouwen

#17. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

John Stott

#18. In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

John Prendergast

#19. It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!

Widad Akreyi

#20. There can be no peace without law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#21. Embrace all people with love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Aristotle.

#23. Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.

Dave DiGrazie

#24. Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.

Joseph Bruchac

#25. It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

#26. Let's stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.

Widad Akreyi

#27. Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work
hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss
loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Jean Vanier

#28. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Abraham Lincoln

#29. Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about an issue, give them time to come around.

Holly Sprink

#30. War is the father of all things.

Heraclitus

#31. The service of humanity, is the service of God.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Jean Vanier

#33. Injustice lives in the unquiet heart.

Nath Jones

#34. Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.

Pat Conroy

#35. Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

Widad Akreyi

#36. Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people ...

Ahmed Padia Binkatabana

#37. Love for one another will create peaceful co-existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. Sometimes you need to swallow hard and recognise your enemy as a fellow human being like who has the same rights as you and accept that you need to live in same space.

Bangambiki Habyarimana