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This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don't let it get complicated. Gray it ain't. It's black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now." He nodded back over his shoulder. "Thanks to you…" He lifted my hand and stared at the center knuckle. The cut had spread open. "… those boys in there are reconsidering their choice.
- Charles Martin
If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.
- Charles Martin
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.
- Will Rogers
Let me suggest that at the core of Jewish God-talk is the unshakable conviction that God's most dominant attribute is His commitment to justice rather than power. Earthly kings lust for power, for total control, and are prepared to sacrifice justice, to hurt innocent people, to hold on to power. But as far as the God of Israel is concerned, in a conflict between justice and power, justice will prevail. God will not do wrong. That more than anything gives Job reason to hope. A
- Harold S. Kushner
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
- Harry S. Truman
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Harry S. Truman
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
- Harry S. Truman
Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm.
- Lawrence Wright
it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?
- Jane Goodall
Without that forgiveness, that peace, no heart is ever happy. There is always an inner struggle. Pain. Only when God has been invited in-to manage one's life, to direct one's thinking, to be in control-can one ever get away from all the conflicts inside. We have to stop struggling against His will before we can find real joy.
- Janette Oke
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
- Les Brown