Monday, June 06, 2005

Pathways to Peace

taken from: http://www.pathways-to-peace.com/

Pathways to peace
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." - Matthew 5:9

Integrity
"Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path and the only one upon which you will never get lost." - M.H. McKee

Joy
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." - Eleonora Duse

Kindness
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

Faith
"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." - Helen Keller

Courage
"This is courage… to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends." - Euripedes

Hope
"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." - George Iles

Charity
"We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are." - Desire-Joseph Mercier

Love
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." - Mother Teresa

Patience
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on, Hold fast, Hold out. Patience is genius." - Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Determination
"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gratitude
"A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Humility
"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right." - Ezra Taft Benson

Forgiveness
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean." - Dag Hammarskjold

Peace
"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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