Quotes about Confrontation
Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways." Deuteronomy 28:7
- Henry Blackaby
It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.
- Marianne Williamson
One night, I knocked out Mr. T, kicked Cyndi Lauper, chased Dick Clark back to his locker room, and slapped Little Richard.
- Roddy Piper
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
- Frederick Buechner
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's non-white man.
- Malcolm X
What confronts us, now the excitement's over, is our own failure.
- Margaret Atwood
A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!
- Margaret Atwood
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
- Philip Yancey
Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
- Oswald Chambers