Seek and strive after peace

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

This is the greatest and first commandment.

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Matthew 22:37-39

In order to be a teacher of peace,

a person must first of all

nurture peace within the self.

Inner peace comes from knowing

that one is loved by God

and from the desire

to respond to his love.

St. John Paul II

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love;

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.