The Bible

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. -Psalm 34: 14

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. -- Proverbs 10:12

These things I command you, that ye love one another. -- John 15:17

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace- Isaiah 51:7

Blessed be the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.-Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth –Matthew 5: 5

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy- Matthew 5:7

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. –John 14:27

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. -- Isaiah 2:4

St. Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Jimmy Carter

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Dorothy Day

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

St. Francis of Assisi

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Where there is injury let me show pardon.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Gustavo Gutierrez

Real Christian love is founded on commitment to a more just society and action to bring it about.

Martin Luther King

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.-Accepting the Noble Peace Prize December 10, 1964

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Letter from a Birmingham Jail April 16, 1965

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.-Strength of Love 1963

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther

Peace if possible, truth at all costs

When schools flourish, all flourishes

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace

St. Angela Merici

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

Mother Theresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Sojourner Truth

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Harriet Tubman

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

John Wesley

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Misc.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. -- Book of Common Prayer: The Lord's Prayer

Peace be with you.