Quotes about Conflict

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

The best news in the world is that there is no conflict between your greatest possible happiness and God's perfect holiness. Being satisfied with all that God is for you in Jesus magnifies him as the greatest treasure and brings you more joy---eternal, infinite joy---than any other delight ever could.

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength....

It's worth pointing out that Renate didn't just marry a gay drug addict. That would have been bad enough. But she married a gay drug addict whose life was about to go haywire in ways he hadn't previously thought possible.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

We have just enough religion to make us hate one another," Jonathan Swift once observed, "but not enough to make us love one another.

Religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.