The Christian symbol of a dove with an olive branch in its beak represents love and peace and comes from Genesis 8:6 -12 which reads : `` And it came to pass at the end of forty days , that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made : ... Also he sent forth a dove from him , to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground ; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot , and she returned unto him into the ark , for the waters were on the face of the whole earth : then he put forth his hand , and took her , and pulled her in unto him into the ark .
The Christian symbol of a dove with an olive branch in it 's beak represents love and peace and comes from Genesis 8:6 - 12 which reads : `` And it came to pass at the end of forty days , that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made : ... Also he sent forth a dove from him , to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground ; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot , and she returned unto him into the ark , for the waters were on the face of the whole earth : then he put forth his hand , and took her , and pulled her in unto him into the ark .