Quotes about Conflict
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
- Tertullian
I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."
- Desmond Tutu
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
- George W. Bush
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
- Herman Melville
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
- Thomas Jefferson
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
- Alfred Nobel
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
- Dale Carnegie
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
- Donald Miller
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
- Donald Miller
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
- Henry David Thoreau