Peace Pilgrim Quotes

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

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

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

There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

Fear is real, but so is love.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented to us.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Reject hatred without hating.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have.