Quotes about Conflict

My feelings and my faith will almost certainly come into conflict with each other. My feelings see rotten situations as absolutely unnecessary hurt that stinks. My soul sees it as fertilizer for a better future. Both these perspectives are real. And they yank me in different directions with never-ending wrestling. To wrestle well means acknowledging my feelings but moving forward, letting my faith lead the way.

two types of stuffer reactions: stuffers who build barriers and stuffers who collect retaliation rocks.

remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response

Sometimes relationships grow stronger through conflict; other times relationships end.

I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows

Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.

You were born into a savage war.

History is riddled with blood and sin.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.