“If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.”

“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.”

“Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.”

“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.”

“I do not understand what I do....It is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me...For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing...I find this law at work: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me...I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin...I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.”

“Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.”