Quotes About Conflict

Forgiveness is not the same as pardon, he advises: you may forgive one who wronged you and still insist on a just punishment for that wrong.

He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT

25He jammed[27] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.

Does the Christian emphasis on love, grace, and forgiveness have any relevance outside quarreling families or church encounter groups? In a world where force matters most, a lofty ideal like forgiveness may seem as insubstantial as vapor.

Caught up in righteous—and wholly appropriate—revulsion over Serbian atrocities, the world overlooks one fact: the Serbs are simply following the terrible logic of unforgiveness.

There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.

it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.

Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.

A lo largo de toda la Biblia, en especial en los libros de los profetas, vemos a Dios debatirse en un conflicto interno. Por una parte, amaba apasionadamente a las personas que había creado; por otra, sentía el terrible impulso de destruir al Mal que la esclavizaba. En la cruz, Dios resolvió ese conflicto interno, porque en ella su Hijo absorbió la fuerza destructiva para transformarla en amor. Citas

On the one hand God passionately loved the people he had made; on the other hand, God had a terrible urge to destroy the evil that enslaved them. On the cross, God resolved that inner conflict, for there God's Son absorbed the destructive force and transformed it into love.

The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

I think it is unkind of me to stand there with my hands by my sides and a frown on my face. But I let him go without a blown kiss, without a blessing, without a command to come back safely. I let him go without a word or a gesture of love, for he is going out to fight for my enemy and so he is my enemy now.

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

We say that we are rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We,their own lords, quarrel among ourselves, and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children.

I have the Sight, I should have seen it all, but some things are too dark to forsee. These are hard times, and England is a country of sorrows. No mother can be sure that she will not bury her sons. When a country is at war, cousin against cousin, brother against brother, no boy is safe.

There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier

We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?

She doesn't realize yet though men go to war it is the women who suffer--perhaps more than anyone.

Look, you can't fight everyone... You have to choose where you belong and rest there.

There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. It destroys families; it is killing us daily.

it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace