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The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.
— A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
The ethics of peace is liberal
—  it's not conservative based.
Money brings about personal convenience rather than personal satisfaction or fulfilment. It will entertain you but it will never give you true peace. Money will buy you the most expensive house but it will never give you a peaceful sleep.
— D.S. Mashego
When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great human being into the worst version of himself.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself
— Ziggy Marley
Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play ground of the nuclear arms of the evil forces.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
There is no peace for great men
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
I am not an atheist. But the religion that I do advocate is not of the Bible, Vedas, Quran or any other scripture. The religion I speak of, is what Christ talked about, it is what Buddha talked about, it is the religion of plain everyday kindness.
— Abhijit Naskar
It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious harmony, than to convert the entire religious population on earth into atheists.
— Abhijit Naskar
Although it is easy to imagine happiness as the upwards turn on this haphazard rising and falling of emotion which is life, but really it is a foundation of strength of character and inner balance that precipitates peace, a foundation that is slowly built or slowly chipped away. There are times when it may seem that the foundation of happiness is broken, but as the dust settles and the debris is cleared away, we find that the storm has only covered it, still leaving everything we have built in place. True happiness is forged in the furnace of perseverance, fortitude, hope and love. It is not burned or broken by the heat, rather it is made unbreakable—it becomes eternal. Life is the fuel for this purifying fire.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party: Part 2
To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.
— Germany Kent
Night simply drapes itself over the dayAs if someone had lowered a curtain.The sky glitters and moves,Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.
— Margarita Engle, The Firefly Letters
...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.
— Margaret Obank
It's literature that provides solace to hearts wounded by man made divisions of religion, race, class, gender and class...
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
The real You is hidden beneath the mental noise in Your head.
— Bert McCoy
Haydn's hand tightened around the stone as he stared at the ground. "I need to find my sister. To save her. Maybe then I will be wor
— Hope Ann, Shadows of the Hersweald: A Hansel and Gretel Novella
And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.
— Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with himself
— Sunday Adelaja
They had a good marriage, a solid relationship that had endured its ups and downs because they’d learned from the mistakes they’d made during their tumultuous beginning. What they’d built together was open and honest and there wasn’t anything they couldn’t talk about with one another.
— Kimberley Reeves, Vittorio's Woman
My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.
— Kamand Kojouri
The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party
Peace does not come from destroying evil, but from building goodness.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
Peace is not the absence of chaos or conflict, but rather finding yourself in the midst of that chaos and remaining calm in your heart.
— John Mroz
Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.And never the twain shall meet.
— Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
Peace is conscious and active participation in your own life.
— Mayra Porrata
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
— Yitzhak Rabin
A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sweep your mind and clean your heart, for these are the very places where things that make or mar our entire journey of life and living dwell! Sweep your mind and clean your heart, then you shall be free to be free and indeed have a true freedom! Sweep your mind and clean your heart, so you may have a clean mind and heart to be clean! Sweep your mind and clean your heart for not all things deserve a place in your heart and body! Sweep your mind and clean your heart, for in the end, so many things living in your heart and mind may never matter as part of the matters of your lifetime and life which really matter! Clean your heart and sweep your mind for certain people and things are in there only to disturb you for all the moments they shall continue to live there! Sweep your mind and clean your heart, for your body deserves nothing, but a clean mind and a clean heart daily for a daily fresh and refreshed body! Sweep your mind and clean your heart for there are so many toxic substances in our minds and hearts which we ponder over and over every day that weaken not just our hearts and minds every day, but our entire daily life and living! Sweep your mind and clean your heart for certain things deserve to live permanently in our hearts and minds so as to enable us live and leave distinctive footprints, and certain things deserve to leave our hearts and minds so that we can have a safe journey of life, and live and leave distinctive footprints in our journey of life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
— Yitzhak Rabin
An extended hand is the best weapon against a clenched fist.
— Gary Rudz
You can’t invite love with hate.
— Auliq Ice
He stretches forth in our soul, Teaches our arms how to reach.Our feet He has shod,With His gospel of peace.
— Kari L. Greenaway, Hope Doesn't Hide
Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
Yes, I’m talking about a non-violent revolution of consciousness. A consciousness that is able to understand how we’re all inextricably connected to each other on this Earth,and to the Earth itself.And that if we violate those fundamental principles, we do so at our own peril. Yes, we can continue to live in this delusion and the denials of reality because it’s painful, it’s frightening. Sometimes, it’s terrifying. It's terrifying to face the truth.So I ask each of you to search your hearts, as to what your truth is, for being a citizen of the Earth,promoting justice as a foundation for peace.It’s not going to happen magically, it’s not going to happen by relying on these political structures and institutions.I think we’re going to have to wage peace in the most extraordinary ways whether our government wants it or not.Without a non-violent revolution of consciousness, we will not survive as a civilization or as a planet.We can choose to have peace if we want to pay the price. And what more glorious goal than peace for all people?...To build a new society, a society that understands that we are not worth more, and they are not worth less.And that we will be willing to pay the price and take the risks to wage peace with all fellow and sister human beings.
— S. Brian Willson
Soft sunlight tall treeswoodsmoke impressions summery cuestossed onthis dainty patch of my recluse.~ Poem Title VERS LIBÉRÉ, Tara Estacaan
— Tara Estacaan
People are not a threat, wrong ideas are.
— T. H. Mandeel
Not only are we not alone, we are a thread in a great tapestry that is rich, because we exist.
— Lynne Cockrum-Murphy, Unfolding the Mystery of Self: We are Never Alone
After a while Luce curled up with her head leaning on a rock, wondering why she wasn't consumed with despair. Instead she felt an inexplicable sense of peace. She was cradled in music. The rocks around her chanted like slow, growling bells, and each curl of the water stroked her fins with silky notes. She'd been so afraid of leaving her tribe, but she understood that she never would have heard the music resonating out of every crook of the world if she hadn't taken so many risks. She'd opened her heart to the music of solitude, and it had come to her.
— Sarah Porter
Don't destroyed your body for a peace of mind you would never get.
— Genereux Philip
The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself
— Munia Khan
To live in peace is to follow peace with all men
— Sunday Adelaja
God keeps us in perfect peace when we rely on Him and are firm in the spirit
— Sunday Adelaja
I witness that I’m out of alignment with my power. I choose to see peace instead of this.
— Gabrielle Bernstein, The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith
To live in peace and righteousness is to be restored to God’s dominion
— Sunday Adelaja
You Are Hard-Wired For The Kingdom Of Love, Peace And Unity
— Sunday Adelaja
I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older." ~Ariel
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.
— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is no more,for her to adore!while pangs the beating world in a lamenting voice;their remembering loss of the 'one' they embrace most and when the crepuscule came like a phantom,the mournful,gathered birds swiftly flew in gloom.
— Nithin Purple, Venus and Crepuscule: Beauty and Violence on Me Thrown
Right before Jesus went to the cross, He prayed that all believers, past, present, and future "may be one, as You, Father are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me" (John 17:21 NKJV). This was Jesus's prayer for us all, yet more often than not, I fear we have not lived up to it. Instead, we fight for our own way, for our selfish desires, for our right to be superior. We build churches centered on our own cultural ideas of God, rather than on seeking to bring us back to Him. And then we fight with other churches and religions about who is serving their personal culture god the best. Come dream with me. Dream of a fight for something bigger, something more important and worthwhile. We need to fight for justice and peace, for the walls between us to come crashing down.
— John M. Perkins, Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win
Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
In the hands of blood-sucking monsters a scripture becomes a weapon that takes away humanism from the heart of humans and fills them with hate, rage and selfishness, whereas, in the hands of modern human beings the same scripture can become the greatest philosophical tool to endow the species with goodness and compassion.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
It’s time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Peace made him bold; his life was in God's hands, and there it would always stay. 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
— C.R. Hedgcock, Prisoner of the Pyrenees
Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.
— Andy Harglesis
Darkness is the only place, where chaos and peace always met and fell in love with each other.
— Akshay Vasu
What's more toxic than what they have done, think, or have said about you is how you let your mind receive it. In a world as ours filled with so much noise and hate, what suffers the most is our minds. Know when to keep your mind shut!
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
The stiller you are the calmer life is.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.
— Germany Kent
When personal growth is missing, there is no peace.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Let peace, concord and unanimity reign among all Christian people...for without peace we cannot please God.
— Charlemagne
As a scientist who deals with the deepest secrets of human mind, I know very well that global harmony is something that cannot be truly achieved in a few millennia. Yet it is the most glorious cause worth fighting for as a true sapiens. And I shall keep working for it relentlessly through thousands of generations yet to come.
— Abhijit Naskar
Want for your brother, what you want for yourself.
— George       Green
I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.
— Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins
Of course, peace treaties are very attractive to those who sign them. They strengthen one's prestige with the electorate. But the time will come when the names of these public figures will be erased from history. Nobody will remember them any longer. But the Western peoples will have to pay heavily for these overtrusting agreements.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West
God is never far from His people, even when they are far from Him.
— Marcia Furrow, 365 Days of Grace: Experiencing God's Grace from Genesis to Revelation
Love is my philosophy, compassion is my journey and peace is my destination.
— R. A. Delmonico
Man's capacity to innovate should not exceed his ability to live in peace.
— R. A. Delmonico
You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one.
— R. A. Delmonico
...as long as I felt I had to take some action, I was anguished, and when I gave up all responsibility and stopped trying to do anything at all, I was relatively at peace, even though the earth meanwhile was circling so far below us and we were so high up in a defective airplane that would have trouble landing.
— Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Obedience to The Holy Spirit brings you heaven now.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it.
— Kamand Kojouri
There is no well being without inner peace.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
— Geraldine Ferraro
Pursuit of peace in the world is the only foundation of peace in the world.
— Auliq-Ice
In a dark placein a dark timestart with black.Stop. Soak up its energy.Remember the circlehowever bent and broken.Prize balance. Seek Pleasure.Allow surprise. Let musicguide your every impulse.Support those who falter.Steer by our fixed star:No Justice, No Peace.
— Jim Haba
If only we could understand the language of the eyes, there would be more love in our world!
— Avijeet Das
A 20/20 mindset produces clarity, joy, and peace in your life. It produces RESULTS.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All I could consciously perceive in that state of mind was absolute oneness. I felt being one with the banyan tree, under which I was sitting. I felt one with the corns in the field. I felt one with the sky and the clouds in it. As if everything was me, and I was everything. I didn’t have any perception of time or space. All that there was, was an all- pervading eternity – a state of non-dualism.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Through Neurotheology, I and my fellow scientists of twenty-first century have already taken the first step from the side of Science, to diminish the gap between Science and Religion. Now it is time for Religion to do the same.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Peace cannot prevail without bloodsheds.
— Ala barakah
The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?
— Kamand Kojouri
I have always found peace among books.
— David Levithan, The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
— Kamand Kojouri
Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
If you're calling for peace, I am not home.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Everything is linked,' said an enraptured Baremboim on stage; 'everyone is linked, all our actions have ramifications, and music is a teacher of this interconnected reality.' There was, however, in the letter a mundane, prosaic footnote that nibbled at the very edges of possible understanding, since understanding must always be preceded by human curiosity. Perhaps it will vanish in the charged space between one suicide bomber and the next military bulldozer that buries human beings alive within the imagined security of their own homes; perhaps it will join other shards of recollected moments of curiosity and discovery, to weld into a vessel of receptivity and response.
— Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
Peace can only survive when fed peace.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
If perception is limited to experience and knowledge, what proof do we have of moral judgement?
— Kierra C.T. Banks
The goal is World and Inner Peace, Love, and Happiness for everyone. And a higher standard of living. No one can make it happen alone. But we can all “think globally, act locally” and try to act like a team. We don’t know unless we try to make this happen.
— Saminu Kanti
They told me Islam is peace.Later messaged me and said. they are going to kill me. #strangepeople 
— Arash Tabish
If perception is limited by experience, knowledge, and/or education, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?
— Kierra C.T. Banks
If perception is limited by experience and knowledge, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week, In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.
— S. O' Sade
One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof their way and give it to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You are the stories and incidents that you never tell to anyone. You are the thoughts that you get while standing under the shower. You are those memories that won't lets you sleep at night peacefully. You are those words that you will never say while speaking with someone. You are those scars that you always hide from everyone. You are those little secrets that you will never let the world know. You are everything that you hide under the identity that you call the real you.
— Akshay Vasu
To live, to truly live, one must consider each and every thing a blessing.
— Kamand Kojouri
He has been waiting for us, waiting in vain, and His fatherly heart was filled with grief. When He then sought to call us home through chastenings, we rebelled against Him and His actions and again refused to come home to the Father. What else should He do with us?
— M. Basilea Schlink
With the word "Repent" He was beckoning to us as the Savior, offering us His love and salvation. But behind this word we can also see the grief of God that His children have turned away from Him.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who planned them all in love for us, and giving Him the response of love and gratitude?
— M. Basilea Schlink
Happiness is little more perplexing, in its search you lose peace inside yourself.
— raja shakeel mushtaque
Our repentance should begin with the fact that we have no longer taken the Word of God seriously and have not come to repentance. We dared to use our own standards and were satisfied when we lived up to them. We are like the Pharisees.Outwardly we participate in Christian activities, perhaps even enthusiastically...And we think that this is enough. We use our own yardstick.But God will measure our lives according to His standards, and we shall have no excuse when we appear before His judgment seat, for He has clearly proclaimed His standards in His Word.
— M. Basilea Schlink
How quick we are to reject what others tell us! How fast we are to cast the blame on others, saying they always criticize us and find fault with us, they are not satisfied with anything we do, they do not understand us.But if we cannot accept anything others tell us, we are proud. The humble want to hear what others tell them. They have the courage to hear the truth about themselves and to admit that they need to change. Whether it is a small matter or a big matter, they say, "Yes, it is true. I need to turn over a new leaf.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Our objections - whether they be theological or psychological - usually have but one root: It is pride that makes us reject the message of repentance.For repentance means humbling ourselves before God and man, changing our ways and making amends. In doing so, we admit that our former ways were wrong, and that is humbling.No other sin is so firmly ingrained in our hears as pride, especially in the hearts of those who acknowledge Jesus as their Savior.
— M. Basilea Schlink
On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!
— Widad Akreyi
I wish we'd be able to deliver our message at the global level on the need to recognize the past genocides in order to prevent new ones. Our message of peace and justice will hopefully reach every corner of the world.
— Widad Akreyi
People say, "How can God let that happen? How can God remain silent about all the wicked things that happen on earth, about all the terrible crimes that are committed?" And here again self-righteousness makes us blind and deaf.We no longer perceive how God speaks in judgment through wars and all the other troubles in the world. Yes, He is speaking powerfully. Such judgments are His last attempt to win us back in love.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.
— Kamand Kojouri
You are not for everyone. But you are for someone.
— Julieanne O'Connor
Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Knowing when you should weigh up your options, remain calm and not take everything at face value has certain benefitsEnding the day with with a peaceful soul is one...
— Virginia Alison
Self-justification - that is, claiming one's innocence and thus in the final analysis blaming God - is an inheritance we have received from Adam and Eve. Even the worst criminals have this urge to exonerate themselves.They claim innocence in the face of the most heinous crimes. Prison chaplains write that there is no place like prison to find so many self-righteous people, maintaining that they are actually innocent. They think they have been imprisoned unjustly. We human beings have an excuse for everything and thus we see no reason why we should repent and turn from our ways. If we think we are in the right, that we have good reason to justify ourselves and say that we are not guilty, why should we repent?
— M. Basilea Schlink
The Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansBecause of peace, by peace, in peace.
— Petra Hermans
If we are discouraged because we lack repentance and excuse ourselves by saying that it does not lie in our power to obtain a contrite heart, because repentance can only be granted as a miracle of the Holy Spirit, it is a sign that our thinking has been clouded by the Enemy.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Fill your heart with love. Forgive and let go. Not necessarily because those who mistreated you deserve it, but because you do. Let forgiveness liberate you from your past. Allow it to take away all the resentment you’ve kept in your heart for all this time and allow it to fill in that empty space with love. Forgive, release and let go.
— Luminita D. Saviuc
Perhaps God is not calling you to live for peace, but rather to fight for it.
— Michelle Griep, The Captive Heart
Harmony and Peace do not rise from any church, temple, mosque or synagogue. They can only rise from individual human conscience.
— Abhijit Naskar
All things seek for comfort and no one wants discomfort. A sound mind does not just improve speed; it increases efficiency and joy, and bond the body and the soul perfectly as well!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, to be at peace, to be happy and to be able to sleep at night. You don’t forgive because you are weak but because you are strong enough to realize that only by giving up on resentment will you be happy.
— Luminita D. Saviuc, 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy: An Inspiring Guide to Discovering Effortless Joy
I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many a time I longed to be back among the sheep again, for fear of losing my peacefulness of spirit.
— R.D. Blackmore, Complete Collection of R. D. Blackmore
At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Only penitent sinners, who are granted forgiveness, are set on fire with love for Jesus. So I can testify how impoverished a life without daily repentance is. Heaven does not draw near. The radiance of joy is missing. There is no adoration or songs of praise. Love for Jesus is not burning in one's heart. There is no power in one's ministry, and it bears no fruit.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Thus the penitent are actually sincere, truthful and realistic. They sorrow for their sins before it it too late, unlike others who neglect to do so and will be sorry for their sins for all eternity. They are grieved over their sins now, so that they can turn over a new leaf and begin to lead a new and different life.
— M. Basilea Schlink
To be spiritually alive is to live in repentance. Spiritually dead are those Christians who never weep over their sins or who have long ceased to do so. Dead - in God's eyes - are those Christians who can no longer rejoice over God's forgiveness. Whenever this joy is missing, even if we may call ourselves committed Christians, there is something wrong in our lives.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Only repentance can save us from spiritual death and lead us to eternal life, and only repentance lets us have a foretaste of this divine life here and now.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Only those who are alive can bring life to others. The spiritually dead are unable to generate life, because there is no life in them. They cannot be a testimony to others by their deeds. They are simply dead. Whoever does not live in repentance belongs to the spiritually dead, who cannot bring anyone to life. But the penitent are full of life, divine life; and they can bring others to life. Whenever someone repents, he scarcely needs to say a word. He doesn't need to preach at others. Rather, when he lies prostrate before God and man and confesses with a broken and contrite heart, "I have sinned; I am guilty," his words have the power of life. They can open the hardest hearts and bring to life the spiritually dead.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Everyone hungers for a foretaste of heaven. The word "heaven" strikes a note in everyone's heart, for all men are Adam's children, driven out of paradise, but still cherishing a deep desire for the lost paradise.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Repentance is the gateway through which the Gospel can come to us. Repentance is the gateway to a joy-filled life with Christ, for it is the prerequisite for attaining forgiveness, and wherever forgiveness is received, there is salvation and joy.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Sinners with broken and contrite hearts have but one desire. Filled with thanksgiving, they want to love Him who loved them so much. They are so overwhelmed that He has borne their sins and carried them away. When we receive forgiveness, our hearts are so filled with joy that we cannot help but love Him with a lavish love. We cannot help but give our lives to Him who gave His life for us and set us free from the prison of sin. We cannot stop thanking Him, and so we do everything possible to bring Him joy and to bestow our gifts upon Him, serving Him with all our talents and strength. And this is what heaven is all about: centering upon Jesus and loving Him above all else.
— M. Basilea Schlink
This sin weighs heavily upon the Body of Christ and will call down the judgment of God. In Germany there is an even greater sin weighing upon us Christians and that is the crime our nation has committed against Israel, God's chosen people.Six million Jews were killed; because of this the wrath of God is upon us. As Christians we are especially to blame. For when the terrible crime occurred and millions of Jews were tortured with inhuman cruelty and killed at the hands of German people, the Church in our country remained silent.The Christians did not stand up as the Danes did and protest the injustice. With the exception of a number of individuals the church members were not driven by the desire to help the Jews at all costs. Nor did they ring the church bells the night the synagogues were burnt down.The Church gave no reaction - an indication that she was dead. Because we were silent, we heaped guilt upon ourselves, and we were struck by the judgment that later descended upon our nation.Our churches were destroyed. Germans were killed by the thousands in bombings. Refugees thronged the streets, and the Iron Curtain divided our country.
— M. Basilea Schlink
By our everyday actions, by our unwillingness to admit our mistakes and sins, we Christians have declared God dead - perhaps without even realizing it. For is we no longer want to humble ourselves before God and man, acknowledging our sins, if we no longer want to repent, we do not need a living Savior.
— M. Basilea Schlink
The spirit of contrition and repentance has by and large become foreign to us. Repentance implies a turning to God. Instead of repenting, however, we demand that God adjust to our modern concepts.Because the spirit of contrition and repentance is missing, church services , evangelizations and other Christian meetings often lack power and cannot move the listeners to tears of contrition. How very much we, the members of the Body of Christ, have hardened our hearts!We no longer want to see sin for what it is. When God is dishonoured and blasphemed and His commandments are abandoned, we do not regard it as such. Nor do we see that when God Himself is declared dead in His Church and His commandments are no longer regarded as binding, these are the signs of the times that Jesus said we should watch for.
— M. Basilea Schlink
The increasing lawlessness and the fact that love has grown cold - signs that Jesus specifically named for the end times (Matthew 24:12) - are put aside by the Church as being of no great importance, although the unprecedented facts and examples are alarming. We need to call to mind certain trends in the past years.The soaring crime rate. The glorification of brutality and perverse forms of sex. The increase in drugs, which have already claimed millions of addicts. The alarming growth of involvement in occult activities, and in spiritism and even satanic cults.And all this is taking place in "Christian" nations, yes, mainly in these countries, and even in their churches. Who takes this as a challenge to pray, fast and repent?
— M. Basilea Schlink
We are apathetic and indifferent towards our sins, and we are usually not disturbed by them at all. We are more likely to weep over what is done to us, or over difficult leadings. We weep over our sorrows, troubles and disappointments. Each one of us does so, for this is our human nature.But not everyone comes to the point of true contrition and repentance and weeps over his sins. Such reactions are foreign to human nature. The human heart has a way of thinking that it is always in the right and has no need to weep over its sins. By nature, we are self-confident and impenitent. We blame others or even accuse God when we do not understand His ways.
— M. Basilea Schlink
The human heart has a way of thinking that it is always in the right and has no need to weep over its sins. By nature, we are self-confident and impenitent. We blame others or even accuse God when we do not understand His ways.
— M. Basilea Schlink
Our highest contribution is making this world peaceful and happy. That comes when we can radiate peace and harmony from every cell, gene and DNA of our body.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.
— Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!
— Shannon L. Alder
Light the candle of love. Spread the rays of happiness in every direction in every breath.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
I was born for the peaceful life,for rural quiet:the lyre's voice in the wild is more resounding,creative dreams are more alive.To harmless leisures consecrated,I wander by a wasteful lakeand far niente is my rule.By every morn I am awakened unto sweet mollitude and freedom;little I read, a lot I sleep,fugitive fame do not pursue.Was it not thus in former years,that I spent in inaction, in the shade,my happiest days?
— Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
A woman's strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence...
— Virginia Alison
How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?
— Milan Kundera, The Joke
What we can do now to bring about his kingdom of justice is to cooperate in the establishment of justice in that portion of his kingdom over which we have some immediate control: ourselves. Let us begin the pursuit of justice and peace by cleaning up our own lives and establishing peace within our own hearts.
— M. Basil Pennington, A Place Apart: Monastic Prayer and Practice for Everyone
With belles no longer did he fall in love,but dangled after them just anyhow;when they refused, he solaced in a twinkle;when they betrayed, was glad to rest.He would seek them without intoxication,while he left them without regret,hardly remembering their love and spite.Exactly thus does an indifferent guestdrive up for evening whist:sits down; then, once the game is over,he drives off from the place,at home falls peacefully asleep,and in the morning does not know himself where he will drive to in the evening.
— Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem!
— Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
Life should never happen to you, but you should hold the power over life, with what kind of experience you wish to have, without any internal and external pressure.
— Roshan Sharma
The pendulum wall clock ticked and the ancient refrigerator clicked on. From outside came the low mooing of a cow. Such peace, thought Emily.
— Shannon Claire Morelli, Heaven Awaits
The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83
— Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
War is a seed of bigger war, but Peace is the seed of God.
— Iisakki Totuudentalo
Stop praying for salvation when it is clear,You are the saviours that we need around here.
— Harry Whitewolf, Rhyme and Rebellion
Your soul awakens your mind. Your mind makes your choices. Your choices manifest your life. Your life is your lesson. Your lessons create wisdom. Your wisdom enriches your soul.
— Karen A. Baquiran
May there be an abundance of kindness, hope, patience, light and joy in your life.
— Tara Estacaan
Jesus of Nazareth told us to say these twelve words when we prayed: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.' ... And for those words alone, he deserves to be called ;the Prince of Peace.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
Everything you have ever done has led up to this very moment. Savor your life, the lessons, the wisdom, the failures, the victories and all the relationships that have made an imprint in your journey.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Don't settle. If you settle, you already know it's below your standards. You are entitled to the best this life has to offer.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Be with your loved ones and feed your soul with the deep connections that money can't buy. Your bank richness will never amount to the richness of love.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Listen to your intuition. When you're at a crossroad, the little voice is always talking to you. You just have to pay attention.
— Karen A. Baquiran
I am satisfied-For the peace that has graciously engulfed my tender heart.I am home-Because of the abundance of love that I have given myself.I am enlightened-For the journey I have embarked in knowing my higher self.I am complete-Because I now realize that I was always whole.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Don't give up on yourself. We all have the power to outshine and overcome our sorrows. Let this be the day you take a stand and believe you are indestructible.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Jump every hurdle. If you feel like everything negative has happened to you, you were given these obstacles because the Universe knows that you are strong enough to handle it.
— Karen A. Baquiran
People can be animals. They will use you, take you for a ride, abuse you and take all your precious light away from you. Rise above their manipulation and egotistical bullshit because they are NOTHING without you. No one deserves your light but yourself.
— Karen A. Baquiran
When we live free in the eyes of our spirit, everything superficial that we were once conditioned to believe no longer matters. We should live only with the intention of LOVE and channel that power outward into the world.
— Karen A. Baquiran
The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame about the darkness in broad daylight.
— Bikash Chaurasiya
Peace above all, even above love.
— Laure Lacornette
Winning, being smart is not all that required, but the fulfillment of Christian race brings peace , love and joy to the mind and soul.
— Jerry Sarkwah
Peace is power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace of mind is power of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace of mind is the power in the moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace is the byproduct of understanding in conjunction with the ability to agree or disagree in harmony
— Lamont Renzo Bracy
Whenever you find your mind wandering to the past or future, pull yourself back into the present. Making peace, working through forgiveness of yourself and others over whatever happened in the past will help you to not revisit the past. Acceptance is an important tool when dealing with all that happened before the present moment. Remember, you cannot go back and change anything that has happened. Nothing at all. It was, what is was. You are here now, in the present, and as such, have the power to affect only the present.
— Akiroq Brost
There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.
— Robin Jarvis, The Final Reckoning
Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.
— Kathy McClary, A Kid's Study Guide to Praise
Peace is an effect, or offspring, of Truth. To find Truth without is to find Truth within. To find Truth within is to find peace within. To find peace within is to find the source to peace without. In the event that the source to peace without is found, it cannot become a reality until it is first lived. To live in peace is to express Truth and to express Truth is to multiply peace. Peace begins as an internal realization of Truth, and then translates into an external expression of Truth. There cannot be peace without until there is first peace within. There cannot be peace within until there is first an inner realization of Truth.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
Don't hate the Muslims or Islam. Hate if you must, the fundamentalists who consistently compel the human society to turn away from even the peace loving Muslims. However, the term hate would be an understatement when we are referring to the fundamentalists. The fundamentalists are the biggest enemies of the human race. Without the presence of the fundamentalist inspiration, no violence in the name of religion shall ever fester on this planet. People from all religious, spiritual and non-religious background shall live in harmony, enriching each other's lives, if there are no fundamentalists to divide them apart.
— Abhijit Naskar
Believe in yourself and be the source of joy in someone else's life.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Awareness is absence of seaking.
— Bert McCoy
Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?
— Marc Bekoff, Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation
If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.
— Margo Kelly, Unlocked
Seeking enlightenment is a waste of your time. ..In reality there is no seeker, no search, and no words.
— Bert McCoy
Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.
— Nelson Mandela
Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward another person, think about their inner state. Do not think about yourself, or that you want to prove yourself right. In your quiet, inner thoughts, try to find the good in others. Do not say anything bad about others, even in your own thoughts. When you interact with a person, try to find as much common ground as possible, the more the better, and try to nurture this feeling. To cease being angry with a person and instead to seek peace, forgiveness and love toward him, remind yourself of any sins you may have in common and compare them.
— Leo Tolstoy
In the middle of the night, I saw chaos bleeding out of darkness and peace. Everything that was said and seen before seemed like a paradox. I saw the graves of lies breaking open and the truth crawling out silently into the cold hearts.
— Akshay Vasu
My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.
— Omar Khayyám
We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
There's something specificabout the doves' wayof living my lifeas a natural result of today since it's raining
— Inger Christensen, Alphabet
Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.
— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal