PEACE QUOTES AND PRAYERS

 

PEACE QUOTES AND PRAYERS

            Peace is defined as a state of calmness, tranquility, and harmony. In another sense it means the absence of war and the cessation of hostilities between nations.

            Some common synonyms of peace are: harmony, serenity, security and accord.

            According to the American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.:  True peace is not merely the absence of tension but also the presence of justice.

            A few famous  quotes on peace are:

1.     Peace is the happy, natural, state of man; war, his corruption, his disgrace.---James Thomson, Scottish poet (1700-1748).

2.     Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.----Italian poet Francis Petrarch (1304-1374).  

3.     Peace  is rarely denied to the peaceful.---German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805).

4.     Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war.----English poet John Milton (1608-1674).

5.     Peace is a dear nurse of arts,  plenties, and joyful birth.----English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

            Here is a famous  peace prayer from the ancient Hindu scripture Yajurveda : 36:17:

May there be peace in heaven, peace in the atmosphere, peace on earth, peace in the waters, peace in the herbs, peace in the vegetation. May all the divine powers bring peace. May there be peace in Brahman. May there be peace in all things. May that peace come to me. Om Peace, Peace, Peace.

              In the end, a  Christian peace prayer by St. Francis,   

            Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

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G.R.Kanwal

10^th April 2026