Quotes about Conflict

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Write, read, sing, weep, be silent, pray, endure adversities manfully; eternal life is worthy of all these conflicts, yea, and of greater.

Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.

Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.

Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.

It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.

A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration.