Pray you now, forget and forgive.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of life. It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.

Revenge-seeking minds destroy states, while those seeking reconciliation build nations.

It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

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.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.