Prayer for peace
"O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is discord, harmony.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sorrow, joy.
Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life."
The exact origin of this beautiful prayer remains unknown, it does not appear in any known writings of St Francis. The first known appearance of this inspiring prayer was in 1912 when it was published in the French magazine La Clochette. http://wahiduddin.net/saint_francis_of_assisi.htm
Quotes by Eisenhower
-"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
-"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
-"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
-"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
-"The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."
Peace and war and justice quotes
"All war is deception."
"Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."
"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
"To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason."
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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
- T. S. Eliot
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear... That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing... Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force." Oscar W. Firkins October 26, 1999
"All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own."
Oscar W. Firkins, Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist".
Indira Gandhi
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"Yes, we love peace, but "we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war." John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses
"But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in."
D. H. Lawrence
"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
A. J. Muste
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
- Anwar Sadat
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace".
- Andre Gide
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself..
-Jane Addams
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
-Thomas Jefferson
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
-J. Martin Kohe
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
- Indian Proverb
Peace with a club in hand is war.
- Portugese Proverb
We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
- Harry S. Truman
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,which is the goal of all evolution.Until we stop harming all other living beings , we are still savages.
- Thomas A.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Salvor Hardin
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Jeannette Rankin
"Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements, and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us."
M. L. King Jr.
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
-UNESCO
Poem
And all the Peace there is on Earth
Is faith in what your world is worth,
And saying, without any lies,
Your world could not be otherwise.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
American Poet
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http://www.salsa.net/peace/quotes.html
http://www.peacebuttons.info/quotes.htm
As you can see, talking about peace is as hold as human, from long time , people has been talking about peace, If you go through the links, thousands of defination of peace has been made by great thinker among human - Now what is wrong? why don`t have peace up till now? Is it becaue we just don`t care, or we are so forgetful or we are just too greedy to see reality ? all this rhetoric that is difficult for many who want peace so bad find hard to give answer to- Thus it is clear that it only a few ignorant that are opportunist to that has been a barrie rto human peace-- byut yet -- it is our fault, because , we tyhe people are the one that make dicesion, we give mandate to people that represent us throught our choice--- if we know this the road to peace is not far fetched---each must love peace , we must start with ourselves--then extend to our loves one-- and each extend to others to amultilevel chain that will become one.
Above evrything our interdepency is inevitable- nature has refused in many ways allow us to be divided-- all designs incorporated in the making of nature manisfest and work in a wonderful way to link us together, so that we can see love - love is about many things--- from justice to hunesty , kindness, keeping promise , forgiveness, appreciation, passion every good thing in this world--if we know this then we should this everyone that needs one-- furtehrmore-- we have no choic ethan to be a good person ----becuse of the reality of death obne big thing that tell us that this is what we are made for. Yes we are different-- it is in that difference , our power of lies--through that difference together we can build much more great things than what we have built today -- it is only that varieies, and its elements of sharing that many sweetness of life and experince of real love that brings hapiness lies- but war has nevr let human progress- it always set back our achievement -
first it was the ocean that link mankind together through soil -- then information technology through air-- now we have environment -- I think everyone know that ecosystem link us together at a much finite level --- I hope this will force elemnts of peace and love us to exercise justice- so that we can require to sustain our life and the life of our future generation .
wgy don`t you say something about the why wecan`t get this badly needed peace despite all the cry and shout that is being made about ?
Keep spreading mesage of peace before the the next inocent person get hurts
vive peace and justice , vive love and equality for humanity
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