Peacemakers

Quotes Without Comment

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called Sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9).

“Peacemakers release tension, they don’t intensify it. Peacemakers seek solutions and find no delight in arguments. Peacemakers calm the waters, they don’t trouble them. Peacemakers work hard to keep an offense from occurring. And if it has occurred, they strive for resolution. Peacemakers lower their voices rather than raise them. Peacemakers generate more light than heat. Blessed are such great-hearted souls! We need more of them in the ranks of faith. We have more than enough fighters, more than enough who are ready to pounce.” Charles Swindoll in Simple Faith

Forgiveness is relinquishing my rights to hurt back. Archibald Hart (educator)

It is idle for us to say that we know that God has forgiven us if we ourselves are not loving and forgiving. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Welsh preacher, 20th century)

 Forgiveness, like dimming our headlights, happens sooner when we take the initiative.
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 If we fight the beast by becoming a beast then bestiality has won. Quaker saying

“Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.” Yitzak Rabin (Israeli Prime Minister)  

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton (South African author, 20th century)

"The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales." John Stott in Christian Mission in the Modern World

"God is a peacemaker. Jesus Christ is a peacemaker. So, if we want to be God's children and Christ's disciples, we must be peacemakers too." John Stott in Decisive Issues Facing Christians Today

"The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice—and so the pain—of the cross." John Stott in The Cross of Christ

1 Corinthians 6:1-8; Colossians 3:12-15; 1 Peter 3:8-12; Romans 12:14-21; James 3:17-4:2; Romans 15:1-7

— Bob Clark

2/25/2003