Quotes About Resolution

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;Not wedlock-treachery.

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Conflict in itself is not sin. But sin may enter into the situation, depending on how we approach conflict, how we deal with it, and especially how we treat each other. Sin is a feature of the quality of our relationships.

Discernment emerges from understanding the nature of the conflict and what level of response is needed to deal with it adequately. Creativity is needed for flexibility and innovation.

I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for it and how badly you need it.

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.

The reason I use the word reflex to describe these traits of selfishness is that there is zero premeditation before they happen. When these responses happen, they are coming from my fallen nature, not from reflection and resolution. I don't sin out of duty. I sin spontaneously. They are the reflexes of my original, unmortified sinfulness.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Decisions with multiple objectives cannot be resolved by focusing on any one objective.

She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act. The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after a committee of sleep has worked on it.

Oh billions of dollars — is there no dispute you can't settle?

Her hands were cold now that the confrontation was over.

impatience gets the better of us. The politicians, no offense, see an impasse. So they give the word, and the armies clash. They take territory or destroy it, kill hundreds, sometimes thousands. And it all comes down to the ones who started talking giving in to frustration.

I mean, after everything we knew about them… we should never have ended the war the first time.

When at last he came to his decision, it seemed to him that he had known all along what it would be.

The alternative is the sword over your heads,' he said. 'I know,' I agreed unhappily. 'But that isn't the way. A sword inside us would be worse.

All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash.

Peace Is Nothing Without Anger

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

You have to pick your battles.

That's the great thing about movies, Hitch. The end is the end; everything is resolved one way or the other. You feel joyful or peaceful or relieved, or sometimes disturbed or depressed. But if it's a good ending, it satisfies you, even if it's sad. The war is over, the guy gets the girl, whatever. Real life is a whole lot messier. It doesn't end when things are at a good stopping point.