Quotes about Conflict

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

Jealousy is a tough thing to carry because it causes us to compare and compete. It silences us from celebrating and affirming. When we live in families that compare and compete, but can't celebrate and affirm, we live at war.

Whatever we are battling, internally or externally, the table is right there in the middle of the trouble, at the epicenter of conflict.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle. —PROVERBS 18:19

But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again, because things to come, and carnal sense, are such strangers one to another; therefore it is, that the first of these so suddenly fall into amity, and that distance is so continued between the second.