We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.
– Jean Vanier
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- Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. – Jean Vanier
- We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained. – Clifford Cohen
- The peace in the homes is the peace in the towns.The peace in the towns is the peace in the nation.The peace in the nation is the peace in the world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means. – Jean Vanier
- A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers. – Jean Vanier
- When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them. – Jean Vanier
- We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. – Jean Vanier
- Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace! – Debasish Mridha
- Peace can be fragile and peace can be ugly and peace can be wrong. Peace built on lies is no peace at all. – Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
- Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center. – Richie Norton
- The friend of time doesn’t spend all day saying: ‘I haven’t got time.’ He doesn’t fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it. – Jean Vanier
- People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. – Jean Vanier
- To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts. – Jean Vanier
- Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts. – Jean Vanier
- An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law. – Jean Vanier
- Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. – GK Chesterton
- System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability. – Amit Kalantri
- Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose. – Israelmore Ayivor
- …a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…. – John Geddes
- Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often. – Peggy KopmanOwens
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- And this title, retired Major Ryland, gives you authority over my MasterCard? – Billi Jean
- Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. – Jean Genet
- World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. – Dalai Lama XIV
- Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace…Peace will be the last word of history. – John Paul II
- In Jesus the full meaning of peace is revealed: he gave peace, made peace and is our peace (Jn. 14:27; Eph. 2:14f.). – Gordon J Wenham
- Peace in my mind,Peace in my heart,Peace in my dreams And peace in my thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- For a peaceful life: think about peace, talk about peace, give away peace, and fill the world with peace. – Debasish Mridha
- Be kind. Be compassionate. Be love. Be original. Be authentic. Be peace. Be yourself. BE. – Karen A Baquiran
- Always listen to your HEART. The wisdom of your heart is the connection to your authentic power – the true home of your spirit – Angie karan
- There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God’s work cannot be done without love. – Dwight L Moody
- Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wisdom. In all your getting get wisdom first. – Patience Johnson
- To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
- Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
- Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman’s work is never done. – Jean Little
- We can only change life in the country and radically reform society by having God’s wisdom, strength and authority – Sunday Adelaja
- The first step towards obtaining wisdom is to acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of God and to be subject wholly to His will. – Sunday Adelaja
- Go gave us His authority, He gave us His wisdom, He is waiting for our actions – Sunday Adelaja