Pacifism means peace-making. The pacifist is literally a peace-maker. He is not a passive or negative person who proposes to lie back and do nothing in the face of evil. Pacifism is not a theory; it is a way of life. It is something you are and do... .

St. Paul knew enough about the forces of evil to know that they could be conquered only by greater forces, and so he set forth his famous method - "overcome evil with good." There is no other way to overcome it... . The evil that concerns us ... is always embodied; it is incarnate in a person or in a social institution, and consequently our new way of life, or pacifism, to meet it and overcome it, must be incarnate, too, and must have the dynamic of personal lives in it and behind it.

... We shall never succeed in stopping war until we have a human society permeated with persons who practice a way of life which removes and abolishes the grounds and occasions of war, and which at the same time matures and ripens a spirit of mutual understanding and personal cooperation. Rufus Jones