Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of god, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue.
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
-Mother Teresa
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
-Calvin Coolidge
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
-John F. Kennedy
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
-Francesco Petrarch
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
-Winston Churchill
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.
-Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
-Pope Pius VI
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
-Woodrow Wilson
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
-George Washington
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet, peaceful home!
-Charles Dickens
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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; and where there is sadness, joy.
-St. Francis of Assisi
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity, love and peace in the heart.
-Washington Irving
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
-William J. Clinton
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.
-Erma Bombeck
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.
-Erma Bombeck
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