#peace

Passages on peace from many traditions.

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”

— Matthew 5:9 (KJV) · Christianity · #peace · source

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.”

— Matthew 6:34 (KJV) · Christianity · #peace · source

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

— Matthew 11:28 (KJV) · Christianity · #peace · source

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

— John 14:27 (KJV) · Christianity · #peace · source

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

— Psalms 23:1 (KJV) · Judaism · #peace · source

“Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.”

— Psalms 34:14 (KJV) · Judaism · #peace · source

“Be still, and know that I am God”

— Psalms 46:10 (KJV) · Judaism · #peace · source

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”

— Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV) · Judaism · #peace · source

“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.”

— Dhammapada, verse 5 (trans. F. Max Müller) · Buddhism · #peace · source

“Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.”

— Dhammapada, verse 100 (trans. F. Max Müller) · Buddhism · #peace · source

“As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.”

— Dhammapada, verse 81 (trans. F. Max Müller) · Buddhism · #peace · source

“There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power.”

— Epictetus, Enchiridion 1 (trans. T. W. Higginson) · Stoicism · #peace · source

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.”

— Epictetus, Enchiridion 5 (trans. T. W. Higginson) · Stoicism · #peace · source

“Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.”

— Epictetus, Enchiridion 8 (trans. T. W. Higginson) · Stoicism · #peace · source

“Let right deeds be Thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them.”

— Bhagavad Gita 2 (trans. Edwin Arnold) · Hinduism · #peace · source

“O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee.”

— Kabir, Songs of Kabir I (trans. Rabindranath Tagore) · Bhakti (Kabir) · #peace · source

“What! Shall not men's hearts repose in the thought of God?”

— Qur'an 13:28 (trans. J. M. Rodwell) · Islam · #peace · source

“And the servants of the God of Mercy are they who walk upon the Earth softly;”

— Qur'an 25:63 (trans. J. M. Rodwell) · Islam · #peace · source

“Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.”

— Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman), The Soul of the Indian (1911) · Indigenous (Dakota) · #peace · source

“it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV (trans. Meric Casaubon) · Stoicism · #peace · source

“I gazed into my own heart;”

— Rumi, Divani Shamsi Tabriz (trans. R. A. Nicholson), in The Persian Mystics (1907) · Sufism · #peace · source

“God is the breath of all breath.”

— Kabir, Songs of Kabir I (trans. Rabindranath Tagore, 1915) · Bhakti (Kabir) · #peace · source

“No one is my enemy, and I am no one's enemy.”

— Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 671, Guru Arjan (trans. Sant Singh Khalsa) · Sikhism · #peace · source

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