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Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Peace'

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Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman (1860-1925)
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, American Author
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht, German Poet (1898-1956)
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Bertolt Brecht, German Poet (1898-1956)
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
John Bright, British Politician (1811-1889)
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
John Bright, British Politician (1811-1889)
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
Harold Brodkey, American Author (1930-1996)
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
Larry Brown, -
I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
Jackson Browne, American Musician (1948-  )
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Anatole Broyard, American Critic (1920-1990)
The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
John Bruton, Irish Politician (1947-  )
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
John Bruton, Irish Politician (1947-  )
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Politician (1928-  )
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Politician (1928-  )
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Politician (1928-  )
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan, Scottish Politician (1875-1940)
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan, Scottish Politician (1875-1940)
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Buchner, German Dramatist (1813-1837)
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner, German Dramatist (1813-1837)
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha, Leader
 
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