Pray for Peace - Act for Peace
Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church has launched "Peace Journey 2009", a spiritual journey with ideas and suggestions for the many ways individuals can nurture peace inwardly, personally within our own lives and ideas for proclaiming peace boldly, outwardly, in our interactions with the world around us. On this page you will find links to various aspects of this journey and many suggestions of how to join us in this trip.
PEACE QUOTES
Every act of love is a work of peace, no matter how small. -- Mother Teresa
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. --Jimmy Carter
There is no way to peace; peace is the way. -- A.J. Muste (1885-1967)
The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatsoever unless you realize that it's your move. --- Dr. Frank Crane
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. --- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. --Albert Einstein
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. --Anita Koddick
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you." --Sufi Teaching
"Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it." --Alan Watts
"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard." -- Gaylord Nelson, co-founder of Earth Day
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect. ~ Chief Seattle, 1854 ~
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PEACE
Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, 1995 Excerpts from Article 22. Peace, Justice, and Nonresistance
We believe that peace is the will of God. God created the world in peace, and God's peace is most fully revealed in Jesus Christ, who is our peace and the peace of the whole world. Led by the Holy Spirit, we follow Christ in the way of peace, doing justice, bringing reconciliation, and practicing nonresistance even in the face of violence and warfare. The peace God intends for humanity and creation was revealed most fully in Jesus Christ. As followers of Jesus, we participate in his ministry of peace and justice. We do so in a spirit of gentleness, willing to be persecuted for righteousness' sake. As disciples of Christ, we do not prepare for war, or participate in war or military service. The same Spirit that empowered Jesus also empowers us to love enemies, to forgive rather than to seek revenge, to practice right relationships, to rely on the community of faith to settle disputes, and to resist evil without violence. The biblical concept of peace embraces personal peace with God, peace in human relations, peace among nations, and peace with God's creation. The Old Testament word for peace (shalom) includes healing, reconciliation, and well-being. Peace is more than the absence of war; it includes the restoration of right relationship. Led by the Spirit, and beginning in the church, we witness to all people that violence is not the will of God. Peace and justice are not optional teachings, counsel that Christians can take or leave. They belong to the heart of gospel message. We give our ultimate loyalty to the God of grace and peace, who guides the church daily in overcoming evil with good, who empowers us to do justice, and who sustains us in the glorious hope of the peaceable reign of God.
