Quotes about Combat

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

But if Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Docetism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they spoke of the risen Jesus appearing through locked doors, disappearing again, sometimes being recognized, sometimes not, and finally ascending into heaven.

Blessed is he who is skilled with the sword. It will keep him from falling.

You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak

At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.

After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.