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Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare. -- Pope Francis
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. -- Henri Nouwen
War is what happens when language fails. -- Margaret Atwood
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. -- Howard Zinn
I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em. -- Red Skelton
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. -- Carl Sagan
That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream. -- Brian D. McLaren
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
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
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes. -- Michel de Montaigne
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. -- Henri Nouwen
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement. -- Nhat Hanh
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt. -- 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 exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross. -- John Stott
Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long.... -- Gavin de Becker
Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear. -- Charles Spurgeon
When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train. -- John Rae
If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. -- Nhat Hanh
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 is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. -- Ludwig von Mises
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises. -- Bernie Glassman
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 other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people, we can indeed make peacemaking a way of living. The greatest service we can offer each other is mutual support in our conversion from resentment to gratitude. -- Henri Nouwen
We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell. -- Brian D. McLaren
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him. -- Albert Einstein
My life has been devoted to peacemaking. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. -- Ludwig von Mises
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved. -- John Prendergast

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