Quotes about Resolution

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along," one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.

Peace was not the absence of conflict; it was having the courage to face the conflict and make the right choices.

Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given.

Jesus does not need your resolutions, your recommitments, or your promises to try harder this year. If your resolve to obey God last year did not help you to be faithful, it will not make you successful this year. Jesus asks for your love. If you truly love Him, your service for Him in the new year will be of the quality that He desires.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.