Peace

There is a world cry for peace; everybody wants peace...

It is a curious commentary on human nature that men who cry for peace look upon peace as something that may be picked as an apple from a tree, something that lies about within easy reach of humanity. If I pick an apple from a tree, I have first planted the tree, cared for it, watered it, brought it to maturity. Then in due time I may have the fruit.

So with peace. It is not a thing by itself to be picked up casually, but it is the fruit of something precedent. Like the tree, something must be planted and nourished and cared for if we are to obtain peace.....

The Latter-day Saints, from the beginning of our history, have taught that the good things of life--above all, peace--can come only through acceptance of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ....It is only as the men and women of the world..accept the gospel of the Son of God that peace shall come to rule and reign and be established upon earth....We still proclaim without hesitation that there is only one way to peace, one way to the perfect human happiness---the way of the gospel paved with the principles that constitute the gospel.

Gospel Classics, John A. Widtsoe, Ensign April 2009, p. 11