Peacemaking Quotes

14 quotes by 10 authors

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. — Ludwig von Mises
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.… — Tom DeLay
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… — John Stott
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… — Oscar Arias
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society… — Ludwig von Mises
Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare. — Pope Francis
As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each… — Henri Nouwen
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen
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
My life has been devoted to peacemaking. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have… — Bernie Glassman
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. — Ludwig von Mises

Who Wrote These Peacemaking Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 14 Peacemaking Quotes as follows: