Peacemaking, Peacemakers Quotes

The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other & my arms are the best peacemakers.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one war maker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

The redress of the grievances of the vanquished should precede the disarmament of the victors.

The concept of military readiness is well understood, but readiness for what happens after the fighting stops is just as important.

Soldiers know what war is like. That's why so many of them turn out to be peacemakers.

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.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

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.

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

I have been up to see the [Confederate] Congress, and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Many of Israel's leaders are inundated with extreme ideology that is centered around a deep sense of victimhood. Ghosts from the past blind their eyes from seeing that anyone else could suffer from discrimination in our modern state. In fact, the definition of "traitor" nowadays is "peacenik" or even leftist. The Jewish values that inspired Israel's Declaration of Independence are too often less relevant to government policy than the dead sea scrolls.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

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 so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.

I have been up to see the [Confederate] Congress, but they do not seem to be able to do anything but eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my men starve.