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War & Peace Quote by Marianne Williamson

"Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen"

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A lot is doing quiet work in that opening address: “Dear God” isn’t lofty liturgy so much as an intimate DM to the divine. Marianne Williamson’s phrasing trades theological complexity for immediacy, which is precisely the point. It invites spiritual practice without gatekeeping, a move that fits her wider role as a popularizer of New Age-inflected Christianity: less doctrine, more usable language for the anxious modern self.

The structure is a two-step relay. First, peace is requested as something received (“send to me”), then reframed as something transmitted (“from me to all the world”). That pivot carries the subtext: you don’t get to outsource the world’s healing to God alone. The prayer asks for personal calm, but it refuses to stop at self-soothing. It’s self-help with an ethical hook, insisting that inner life has public consequences.

The repeated “spirit of peace” matters. “Peace” on its own can be a political slogan or a Hallmark abstraction; “spirit” makes it a force, almost a contagion, something that can inhabit and move through a person. The line “from me to all the world” also smuggles in a radical scale shift: it grants the individual moral agency large enough to matter globally, a comforting idea in an era of overwhelming news cycles and chronic helplessness.

Contextually, this is Williamson at her most characteristic: a prayer that doubles as a behavioral program. The amen seals it not as a wish, but as a commitment.

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Williamson, Marianne. (2026, January 18). Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/dear-god-please-send-to-me-the-spirit-of-your-14828/

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Williamson, Marianne. "Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/dear-god-please-send-to-me-the-spirit-of-your-14828/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/dear-god-please-send-to-me-the-spirit-of-your-14828/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Marianne Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is a Author from USA.

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