We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace? — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The amount of violence against another human being we are willing to accept is a litmus test for our own freedom.” — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!” — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“Love is what I'm arming my sons with to go out in an angry and hurting world.” — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Until the common civilians become peacemakers and peacekeepers, no United Nations is gonna succeed in making peace.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between… — Dr Ahmed Padia Binkatabana Copy Share Image
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation,… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“Smoking kills, because people buy cigarettes. Alcohol kills, because people buy alcohol. War kills, because people buy war.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am a very violent person, Yet nobody has seen my violence. I've kept it overwhelmed all my life, With a heart… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We were outsider, yes, but insiders to a hard-won truth: giving your life away is the only way to truly find it.… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
“Showing up when violence wounds a community is what love looks like in public. Loving first, with our presence instead of only… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“I'll never stop acknowledging the pain of others, because empathy is the flashlight leading us toward wholeness and healing. If we ignore… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Omer took a deep breath and stood up. 'It's a bad history without a doubt, he said. Nothing to be proud of.'… — Naomi Shibab Nye Copy Share Image
“If choosing to love first can change enemies into friends on the battlefield of Iraq, I know that it can right here,… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Our two peoples are sworn enemies,” he whispered. “You would not do it.” “Call me your enemy no more,” Jan bade him,… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people carried anger around for years, in a secret box inside their bodies, and it grew tighter like a hardening knot.… — Naomi Shibab Nye Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I'm fighting for your freedom and my freedom. We must have Brave conversations. We must find out what we don't know. Waging… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
