We no longer take sword against
a nation, nor do we learn to make
war any more, having become
sons of peace for the sake of
Jesus, who is our commander.
Origen, c 230 AD
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We are being educated
not in war
but in peace.
Clement c 190 AD
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Because I am a Christian,
I cannot serve as a soldier;
I cannot do evil.
Soldier who became a Christian c 300 AD
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A believer who wishes
to become a soldier shall
be rejected, because it
is far from God.
Church rules in Egypt & Syria c 200 AD
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All men desire peace
but very few desire
those things which
make for peace.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471)
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Hatred is increased by
being reciprocated, and
it can on the other hand
be destroyed by love.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
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Force may subdue,
but love gains ..…..
Let us then try
what love will do.
William Penn (1644 – 1718)
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Let us take the risks of
peace upon our lives,
not impose the risks of
war upon the world.
Quaker proverb
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I shall not fight; for I cannot
bow my need before the
Lord to pray for a man,
and get up and kill him
when I have done.
John Nelson, a soldier who became
an early Methodist preacher
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If my soldiers began to
think, not one would
stay in the ranks.
Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712 – 1786)
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Is it scriptural for a church
of Christ to retain as a
member one who has
enlisted into her majesty’s
service? We think not. – Ed.
General Baptist Repository, in July 1846
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The great crime of war
can never promote the
religion of peace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) in 1857
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What is war but an
incarnate fiend, the
impersonation of all that is
hellish in fallen humanity?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) in 1857
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I am always glad to hear
of a soldier becoming a
Christian, but I am always
sorry to hear of a Christian
becoming a soldier.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) in 1857
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Patriotism is the egg
from which wars
are hatched.
Guy du Maupassant (1850 – 1893)
Novelist and soldier in the Franco-Prussian War
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Let us dishonour war.
Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885)
French writer and son of an army general
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Wars will only cease
when men refuse
to fight.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), Russian writer
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If mankind does
not kill war,
war will kill mankind.
Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895),
father of modern bacteriology
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It seems to me that in three
centuries of progress the
people of the West have
achieved four principles:
to be selfish, to kill others,
to have little integrity,
and to feel little shame.
Yen Fu (1854 – 1921)
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War is utterly demoralizing.
Despite heroism and
sacrifice, there go with it
filth, lies, cruelty and lust.
Ernest W Barnes (1874 – 1953),
Bishop of Birmingham
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Not peace at any price,
but love at all costs.
Dick Sheppard (1880 – 1937)
Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
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Anyone who has ever been
in combat knows that war
is a bad and stupid way of
doing business.
General Bernard Rogers
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Non-cooperation in military
matters should be an
essential moral principle
for all true scientists.
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955),
after the bombing of Hiroshima
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Peace cannot be kept
by force. It can only
be achieved by
understanding.
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955),
after the bombing of Hiroshima
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We are convinced that
the risks we run in the
Struggle for peace will
always be less than the
Irreparable cost of war.
President Oscar Arias (born 1940)
of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize Winner
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More arms do not make
mankind safer,
only poorer.
Brandt Report
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Our nuclear missiles are already
killing people, because we
waste on missiles resources
which could be invested in
ensuring food supplies
for the world.
Robin Cook, Labour MP
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Rest in Peace,
for we will not
repeat the sin.
Garden at Hiroshima
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To understand Trident,
say the word
“Hiroshima” ….
And again. And again.
2,040 times
Jim Douglass (in 1992)
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War is never normal;
the normal function
of the state is peace.
Karl Barth (1886 – 1968), Swiss theologian
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A “peace” which is bought
with the threat of world
destruction is no peace.
Jorgen Moltmann (born 1926),
German theologian
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Pacifists are the realists
of life, not merely
voices of utopia.
Jorgen Moltmann (born 1926),
German theologian
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The ethic of Christ
is uncompromisingly
pacifist.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 – 1971)
USA theologian
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The Church is God’s
peace movement
in the world.
Kenneth Greet, Methodist minister
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Taking an eye for an eye
will make the whole
world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
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We must meet violence
with non-violence.
We must meet hate
with love.
Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968)
after his home was bombed.
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War is the work of men.
War is destruction of
human life. War is death.
We must be ready to take
risks for peace.
Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005)
at Hiroshima, 1981
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There is much worth
suffering for, maybe
dying for. But nothing
worth killing for.
Ken Sehested,
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
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Violence wins temporary
victories and creates
permanent problems.
Revd John Simpson
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God loves everyone,
his friends and enemies,
and so must we.
Ronald Sider, in ‘Christ and Violence’
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Words of love are
always
works of peace.
Mother Teresa
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I cannot accept
theological reflection
that finally leads
to violence.
Medaro Gomez
Lutheran bishop in El Salvador
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You may kill me; but you
may never try to save me
by killing someone else
in my name.
Mairead Corrigan (born 1944)
Northern Ireland
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The great terrorists in the
world are not my captors,
but those who sell arms
and wrap themselves in
flags called nationalism.
Fr Lawrence Martin Jenco, in August 1988,
after being released after 564 days as a hostage in Lebanon
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Old soldiers never die
– only the young ones.
Graffiti
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Join the Army
Travel to exotic distant lands
Meet exciting unusual people
And kill them
T-shirt of 1977
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War as a method of settling
international disputes is
incompatible with the
teaching and example of
Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lambeth Conference 1930 (reaffirmed in 1978)
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War between the nations
can never be brought into
harmony with the
teaching of our Lord.
Baptist Union Assembly (1933)
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The manufacture and the
use of weapons of mass
destruction are contrary
to the purpose of God.
Baptist Union Assembly (1955)
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