Edmund Waller Quotes

Love always overcomes hate.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters.

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.

If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.