Quotes about Violence

Short Quotes

"For at the core of you is what God created in you, not what you created or what your society has created. Even the most dreadful or violent person in the world has at the center of them what God has created. Their ignorance, their rebellion, is the source of their frustration, ignorance and violence upon the world."

• God, Knowledge and the Angelic Presence (Sept 17, 2008)

"Individuals who live violent or destructive lives, they will have a much longer journey to take and will have to perform a far greater service to humanity to redeem themselves. But in the end, redemption is really what it is all about."

• God, Knowledge and the Angelic Presence (Sept 17, 2008)

"You are asked to end your ceaseless conflicts and to never think that you can conduct violence here on Earth in the name of God, for that is an abomination. There are no holy warriors. There is nothing holy about war."

• The Will of Heaven (May 17, 2011)

"If you are guided by the power of Knowledge within yourself, the deeper intelligence that God has placed within you, then there can be no violence or war and conflict. There is only the effort to create positive and mutually beneficial arrangements with others."

• The Will of Heaven (May 17, 2011)

"It is not enough to overthrow the forces of oppression, for this leads to violence and great loss of life and suffering and too often only ushers in a different set of faces, a new lineage of oppressive rulers. How many people have sacrificed their lives and their well-being and their opportunity only to usher in a new and even more dangerous form of oppression?"

• The New Message for the Impoverished and Oppressed (April 18, 2008)

"You have come to help save the world, to give humanity a future and to give your race a greater opportunity—an opportunity to unite, to develop and to become stronger, wiser and more capable, an opportunity to outgrow its tribal divisiveness, its religious fanaticism, its violence, its selfishness and its self-indulgence."

• Greater Community Spirituality Chapter 11: What is Your Preparation For?

"It is only this Great Faith that is unaffected by the past—by the turbulent, violent and grave history of the human family. "

• The Great Faith (April 25, 2007)

Long Quotes

"If people would listen to each other, really, without simply reacting, you would have far less misunderstanding, far less violence and far less conflict in the world today. This is a fundamental skill. You must see beyond your judgments and your reactions. You must gain a greater control over your mind, or you will not be able to see, hear and know the truth about anything."

• The Watchtower (February 17, 2009)

"Who will be able to see beyond the divisions of religious ideology and historical interpretation, and who will be able to mend the conflicts that exist between the world’s religions except those who have this Great Faith? Who will be the peacekeepers and the peacemakers, who will not turn to violence, who will not take sides and struggle, except those who have this Great Faith? "

• The Great Faith (April 25, 2007)

"If you think that the world is about to blow up and you are desperate to do something about it, your contribution will be violent. You will be forced to take sides, and you will have enemies. The Mystery does not think like this. It does not have enemies. It merely has people who are not willing to move, so it works around them. It is like the air that comes in through all the cracks."

• Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume 2, Chapter 13: Religion as Mystery