Achieving peace Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Achieving peace Demand Difficult Fidelity Heroic Heroism Labor Love sacrifice Peace Peace and justice Peace justice Peace war Purity Sacrifice
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the most difficult circumstances of life, there is often only one source of peace. The Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, extends His grace… — Donald L. Hallstrom Copy Share Image
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war. — African Spir Copy Share Image
War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return. — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality,… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
“It is a sad commentary on our civilization, however, that war and suffering rather than peacetime living can mobilize human readiness to make sacrifices,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and… — Sami Al-Arian Copy Share Image
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The best chance… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life,… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
