Peace Township

Famous quotes containing the words peace and/or township:

    The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
    —Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Philippians, 4:7.

    The words are also used in the Book of Common Prayer, Holy Communion (1662)

    A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)