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Merry Christmas! When I think about past Christmas’s, I generally will discover that the smallest details offer the utmost radiance of contentment and peace. Peace is the state of serenity or calm that we feel, especially on Christmas morning.

10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Peace

  1. “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”—Calvin Coolidge
  2. “Peace begins with a smile.”― Mother Teresa
  3. “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”― John Lennon
  4. “The way to Christmas lies through an ancient gate….It is a little gate, child-high, child-wide, and there is a password: ‘Peace on earth to men of good will.’ May you, this Christmas, become as a little child again and enter into His kingdom.”—Angelo Patri
  5. “ ‘You have peace,’ the old woman said, ‘when you make it with yourself.’”― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  6. “Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”― Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Art of Power
  7. “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” – Baruch Spinoza
  8. “First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”—Thomas a Kempis
  9. “One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.”—W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
  10. “Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.”¬— Psalm 34:14

**Last week’s virtue was Charity.

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