Quotes about Conflict

Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

Hatred is in my brain, not in my stomach or my skin. It can't be removed like a rash or an ache. Didn't I hate you as well as love you? And don't I hate myself?

One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility.

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.

Truth without grace is what the enemy brings when he comes as an 'angel of light.

Scriptures reveal that two acts occur continually before the throne of God—intercession and accusation. The conflict between these two is a focal point of the battle between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness.

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.

Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

The trouble is you and Mrs Lynde don't understand each other. That is always what is wrong when people don't like each other. - Anne Shirley