“Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work — hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss — loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.” ― Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
“Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us.
Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.” ― Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“With the help of the Lord, you can handle life’s challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you…restore and “fix” you…and follow you…until you are well on your way.” ― Elizabeth George, Quiet Confidence for a Woman’s Hearttags: peace, spiritual-living8 likesLike
To allow oneself to be carried away By a multitude of conflicting concerns, To surrender to too many demands, …To commit oneself to too many projects, To want to help everyone with everything Is to succumb to violence.” ― Thomas Merton
“When you see a dandelion do you see a wish or a weed? When you hear a child cry do you hear a need or a demand? When you wash a sticky face do you feel blessed or burdened? As parents, our perspective determines our response, and our response determines our children’s reality. So let’s wish wishes, meet needs, and count blessings to make childhood a magical, peaceful, joy-filled reality for both our children and ourselves.” ― L.R. Knost