Quotes about Confrontation
He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
— Proverbs 9:7
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
— Psalm 50:21
And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.
— 2 Chronicles 20:10
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But when you begin to celebrate the sovereignty of God and how he formed you and brought you and your spouse together for his glory and your good, you quit being irritated by your differences and start celebrating how your life has been enhanced by them. As a result, you will not only give room to your spouse's sensibilities, but you will honor him or her in what you do and say in the moments when you are confronted with the differences in your approach to the very same things.
— Paul David Tripp
Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
— 2 Chronicles 19:2
We cannot and must not soften the blow; we cannot and must not pretend that evil isn't that bad after all.
— NT Wright
And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old régime became the new régime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!
— Victor Hugo
When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.
— Joyce Meyer
Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.
— Tracie Peterson
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
— Psalm 74:8
They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
— Psalm 18:18