Quote by Thomas Merton
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifi

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. – Thomas Merton

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I declare that I will establish peace in this world. – Prem Rawat

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In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems. – Sargent Shriver

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I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace. – Yitzhak Rabin

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Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking. – Ludwig von Mises

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