Quotes about Combat

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Dutch evangelist Corrie ten Boom said, "It's a poor soldier indeed who does not recognize the enemy." The key to victory in both natural and spiritual warfare is to clearly identify the enemy, and to understand his character and methods.

Terrorism should be struck down with an iron hand.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

My character isn't supposed to be flashy and be over-the-top. I'm supposed to be dirty in the ring. I'm supposed to kick and punch, and I'm supposed to cheat and find ways to win at all costs.

Each man is a little war.

Gurney says there's no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

A certain amount of killing has always been an arm of business

Sin which is not confessed is also not combated

In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.