Quotes about Conflict

Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way. James 3:10

Please forgive your brothers' transgression and their sin—the wrong they caused you. Genesis 50:17

If we keep fighting our own inner battles. We'll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind. Romans 7:23

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.

The capacity for empathy and self-restraint will serve us powerfully, not only in our external wars but in the conflicts within our own hearts.

Strife is life's oldest and most holy fundament.

Our guns do not strip the foe of life with surgical strokes. They take them in a holocaust.

Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine. This

Lord, I pray for an end to this conflict and a breaking of the hold strife has on us. Take away the hurt and the armor we've put up to protect ourselves. Lift us out of the pit of unforgiveness. Speak through us so that our words reflect Your love, peace, and reconciliation. Tear down this wall between us and teach us how to walk through it. Enable us to rise up from this paralysis and move into the healing and wholeness You have for us.