Quotes about Conflict

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

Anger indulged, instead of simply waved off, always has in it an element of self-righteousness and vanity. Find a person who has embraced anger, and you find a person with a wounded ego.

And where people do not want to know God, he usually allows them to be without him—at least for a while. When desire conflicts with reality, sooner or later reality wins.

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.