Instead of thinking those who don’t share your passions are not ‘real Christians,’ recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about...

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our ‘education’. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other’s words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.

Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking means addressing those issues that caused conflict in the first place. Peacemaking can...

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in oursociety. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with theroots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. Weneed...

Es hilft unendlich viel zum Frieden, nicht auf den anderen zu warten, bis er kommt, sondern auf ihn zuzugehen.”[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But...

Friedensliebe zeigt sich gerade darin, daß man seine Heimat nicht vergißt und eben deshalb entschlossen ist, alles zu tun, um immer in Frieden miteinander zu leben.”[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal...

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...

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.

I grow weary of our being enemies. The scars your talons left upon my back this autumn past are old scars now, long healed. Time to heal this ancient rift between our peoples as well.

Peace isn’t the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people…

Omer took a deep breath and stood up. ‘It’s a bad history without a doubt, he said. Nothing to be proud of.’ He closed his eyes, turning his face to the side, right into the...

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Sometimes people carried anger around for years, in a secret box inside their bodies, and it grew tighter like a hardening knot. The problem with it getting tighter and smaller was that the people did,...

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance....

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.