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"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” missing verse But with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song, which they bring: O hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing! — Edmund Hamilton Sears, written in the context of the social strife that plagued the country during the approaching Civil War

Que Dios no te de paz, asi gloria. May God deny you peace but give you glory. — Miguel De Unamuno

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. . . . But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. — Lilla Watson, a Brisbane, Australia-based Aboriginal educator and activist

Inspiration and craft plus time and effort minus fear and doubt multiplied by purpose equals song. — Ray Wylie Hubbard

Never confuse movement with action. — Ernest Hemingway

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. No pressure, no diamonds. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. The eye sees what it brings the power to see. War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. — Thomas Carlyle

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. — Richard Foster

Lord Jesus Christ, Who didst command us to love our enemies, and those who defame and injure us, and to pray for them and forgive them; Who Thyself didst pray for Thine enemies, who crucified thee: grant us, we pray, the spirit of Christian reconciliation and meekness, that we may heartily forgive every injury and be reconciled with our enemies. Grant us to overcome the malevolence and offences of people by means of Christian meekness and true love of our neighbor. We further beseech Thee, O Lord, to grant to our enemies true peace and forgiveness of sins; and do not allow them to leave this life without true faith and sincere conversion. And help us repay evil with goodness, and to remain safe from the temptations of the devil and from all the perils which threaten us, in the form of visible and invisible enemies. Amen. — Eastern Orthodox prayer for enemies

A conqueror is always a lover of peace. — Prussian general Karl von Clausewitz