What makes for peace?

What words express the urgency of reconciliation and bridge-building, and our longing for trust and serenity?

Explore these resources to discover ‘Peace Words’ and images relevant to your experience and situation, to use in both group worship and personal devotions.

Peace Words resources . . . jump to:
Advent Peace Prayers
Anzac Day Prayers
Hiroshima Day Prayers
Mother’s Day Peace Prayers (Mothering Sunday)
Palestine & Israel Peace Prayers
Peace Prayers – general
Responding to Violence with prayer
Syria Peace Prayers

Peace Images:  Click on the dove image to view all of the free-to-use peace-related images on Worship Words.

Peace images

Advent Peace Prayers 

Our violent world, Confession, Advent 2 — Allison Goerke, USA

Peace on Earth, Advent Reflection, Luke 2.14 — Allen Myrick, USA

Peace on Earth, an Advent Prayer — Allen Myrick, USA

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Anzac Peace Prayers

ANZAC Day hymn, Remembering — George Stuart, Australia

Prayer for ANZAC Day —  Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

Prayer for sanity — Brisbane Roman Catholic Church

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Hiroshima Day Prayers

Confession of destruction — United Methodist Church, USA

Hiroshima Day Prayer — Pilgrim Uniting Church, Adelaide, Australia

Hiroshima Day, 6 August

Prayers for Peace and Justice on Hiroshima Day — World Council of Churches

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Mother’s Day Peace Prayers (Mothering Sunday)

Arise then women of this day! – Julia Ward Howe 1870, USA

Mothers’ Day Proclamation 1870 – Julia Ward Howe

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Palestine & Israel Peace Prayers

Jerusalem Prayer for Palestine & Israel — Christian Leader, Jerusalem

Prayers for Palestine & Israel — Jan Sutch Pickard

Whispers of hope — Chad Abbott, USA

World Week for Peace in Palestine & Israel

Peace Prayers – general

Growing peace — Steve Garnaas-Holmes, USA

I Dream a World — Langston Hughes, USA

Innermost, be still – Sam Goodman, UK

International Day of Peace 21 September

Light a little candle, Matthew 2:1-2– Jeremy McLeod, Colorado USA

May I be a bridge…Daily Prayer–Shantideva, India

Out of the chaos: a prayer for Maundy Thursday — Disciples Peace Fellowship, USA

Passing the Peace

Peace be with you — British & American Sign Language

Peace Blessing — Elizabeth Tapia, UK

Peace call to worship — Susan Pickering, Australia

Peace dwellers, prayer — Simon Cross, UK

Peace prayer – Phil Porter, USA

Peace Prayers — Disciples Peace Fellowship, USA

Peace Sunday

Prayer and Action for Peace — Ana Gobledale, UK

Prayer for peace & illumination — Ana & Tod Gobledale, UK

Prayer for Peace — Hereford Cathedral, UK

Prayer for peace in a world starved for love, James Evans McReynolds, USA

Prayer for peace, Order of St Luke — Tod Gobledale, Australia

Prayer of Praise & Confession, Genesis 32, Proper 13A — Ana Gobledale, UK

Prayer response to violence, 1 John 4:20

Prayer, Our hope and future — Revd Garikai Mufanebadza, Zimbabwe

Praying on Memorial Day (USA) — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Remembering past & future — Ana Gobledale

Remembrance Day / Veterans Day, 11 Nov

Remembrance Sunday Prayers — Cara Heafey, UK

Scouts International Peace Light Service

Spiritual Practice — Alan Paton

Universal Prayer for Peace

Weekly prayers for the countries of the world — Global Ministries, USA

Welcome God’s kin-dom– Christian Peacemaker Teams, USA & Canada

Responding to Violence with prayer

Confession of destruction — United Methodist Church, USA

Our violent world, Confession, Advent 2 — Allison Goerke, USA

Prayer for our fragmented world — Jill Teer, USA

Prayer for peace in a world starved for love, James Evans McReynolds, USA

Prayer for victims of atrocities — Armenian Genocide Recognition Committee, Ireland

Prayer responding to disaster — Global Ministries, USA

Prayer response to violence, 1 John 4:20

Vigil Against Gun Violence, Good Friday

We remember – the erasing of populations

Whispers of hope — Chad Abbott, USA

Syria Peace Prayers

Global Day for Syria 21/09

Global Prayers for Syria & Peace

Prayers for Syria

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