His Constant Concern for Peace

“My aim, then, was first to bring the differing judgments that all the nations had formed about the Deity into one settled form, as it were; and second, to restore to health the whole order of the world, which was then suffering under the deadly power of a grievous disease. With these goals in view, I sought to accomplish the one by the hidden eye of thought, while the other I tried to set right by the power of military authority. For I knew that if I succeeded, as I hoped, in establishing a common harmony of mind among all the servants of God, the general course of affairs would also change to match the devout wishes of them all.