Quotes about Conflict

On the contrary, he would come home and rail at both parties with great wrath—and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife, and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her, that the two parties were like two rogues, each tugging at the skirt of the nation; and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back, and expose its nakedness.

Are you in conflict with someone? Maybe you feel you've done everything you can to make things right. But is there anything else you can do? It would please God so much.

Even when there is conflict around me, even when there are those who don't support me or wish me well, I will rejoice that my reactions and life will reveal Jesus to my world.

An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Unloving attitudes and words cause a "stench that the world can smell... Our sharp tongues, the lack of love between us... these are what properly trouble the world."

Mark 3:25: "And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

Be loving in conflict or be loving in frustration or let love command your every interaction because "love never fails."

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.

Patriots can flourish only where boundaries are well-defined, hostile, and dangerous.

War is not an act of unchecked ruthlessness but a declared contest between bounded societies, or states. If a state has no enemies it has no boundaries.