Quotes about Conflict

Jesus rebuked a storm. If that storm was the will of God the Father, then Jesus is fighting the will of God.

The idea of Kingdom power and spiritual conflict unsettles some people, but without power, the gospel is not good news. Jesus never made the gospel simply a doctrinal exercise.

When we do the will of God, we bring Kingdom reality crashing into the works of the devil. We initiate conflict between earthly reality and heavenly reality, becoming the bridge that asserts, through prayer and radical obedience, the rulership of God.

That gate— that place of praise in the midst of conflict— is where His presence rests, where the King Himself dwells. The gate is formed when we move above human explanation and into a place of trust.

When we do the will of God, we bring Kingdom reality crashing into the works of the devil. We initiate conflict between earthly reality and heavenly reality, becoming the bridge and connection point that makes it possible through prayer and radical obedience to assert the rulership of God.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.