QUOTATION: Peace

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

--Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

QUOTATION: Peace

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Turning the Other Cheek

Why should we turn the other cheek? Because hate multiplies like a seed. If one preaches hate and violence to ten men in a row, and tells the first to strike the second, and the second to strike the third, the hatred will envelop all ten. The only way to stop this hate is for one man to turn his other cheek. Then the hatred ends. It is never passed on. Absorb violence for the sake of the Savior, who will absorb sin and die for it.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: False Peace

You and I are of a single mind in rejecting pacifism that does not recognize that some values are worthy of being defended and that assigns the same value to everything. To be in favor of peace on such a basis would signify anarchy, which is blind to the foundations of freedom. Because if everyone is right, no one is right.

--Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, (Pope Benedict XVI), Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Chistianity, Islam, 2004

QUOTATION: Reconciliation and Authentic Respect

A correct reading of history will make it easier to accept and appreciate the social, cultural and religious differences between individuals and groups. This is the first step toward reconciliation, since respect for differences is an inherently necessary condition for genuine relationships between individuals and between groups. The suppression of differences can result in apparent peace, but it creates a volatile situation that is, in fact, the prelude to fresh outbreaks of violence.

--Pope John Paul II