Quotes about Collision
The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
- Oswald Chambers
The crisis of faith that often accompanies suffering is the result of a collision between our will and God's will and our glory and his glory.
- Paul David Tripp
We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.
- Marty Rubin
Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose.
- Dallas Willard
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And yet he felt as if something had happened to him with regard to her. There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
- George Eliot
You're a rotten driver, I protested. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive at all. I am careful. No you're not. Well, other people are, she said lightly. What's that got to do with it? They'll keep out of my way, she insisted. It takes two to make an accident.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Jesus was killed in a collision of cross-purposes, conflicting interests, and half-truths, caught between the demands of an empire and the religious establishment of his day.
- Fr. Richard Rohr