Quotes About Battle

Therefore I come to the inevitable conclusion that it is now that we must give the most decisive and merciless battle to the obscurantist clergy and crush its resistance with such cruelty that they won't forget it for several decades.17 On only one point was Lenin sensitive: he feared an anti-Semitic backlash if Jews were seen to be running this "pogrom in reverse" against Russian Christians, so an ethnic Russian had to be nominally in charge of crushing the Church.

War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days.

A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

La conversión no se trata de poner al convertido en un cómodo sillón y llevarlo sentado al cielo. Es el comienzo de una tremenda batalla, en la cual cuesta mucho obtener la victoria. De allí, la enorme importancia de "calcular el costo".

Of spiritual strife, exertion, conflict, self-denial, keeping watch, and battle, they know literally nothing at all. Such Christianity may satisfy people, and those who say anything against it may be considered to be very harsh and uncharitable, but it certainly is not the Christianity of the Bible. It is not the religion that the Lord Jesus founded and His apostles preached. It is not the religion that produces real holiness. True Christianity is a "fight.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. I'm not even a god.

I can just imagine the kind of book cover they'll insist on. Some really heroic pose by you doing something you never did, probably. Maybe in battle armor. With a gun." "Like that would ever happen. So if I die, you'll just write a memoir?" "No, I'll probably get a cat, too.

Sometimes the most important shots in battle are the ones not taken.

Reece was wearing the SIG 320 in a holster on his belt rather than his usual BlackPoint Tactical Mini WING concealment rig; there was no reason to try to conceal a handgun while wearing full battle gear.

In the intensity that was combat it was easy to treat the first wound you found, while another, less obvious one drained the life from your injured comrade.

She whispered a quiet prayer to the patron saint of paratroopers: "Saint Michael the Archangel, defend them in battle, be their protection against the enemy…

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

Nevertheless, out of the 580-man garrison, 66 percent of the blacks and 35 percent of the whites were killed. Most of these casualties seem to have occurred during the melee immediately after the Confederates entered the walls, but not all. One

Valkyrietype

The question: "Do I have to have the conflict outside the character? Can't I have the character at war with himself inside his head?" Answer: The conflict has to be on the outside. If you remember the example of writing something which could be put on the theater stage, you will not forget this principle.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

this slow dissipation, the gradual abandonment of all expectations, a defeat that had killed everything without a battle.

But we do not know yet who we are fighting and what we are fighting for.

Daenaira, Magnus realized, had the fighting instinct of a berserker. For her, once battle began, it didn't stop until she no longer felt threatened.

Spiritual combat is as brutal as men's battle!"74

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

The armored creatures wrestled one another, and when one seemed about to climb out of the basket and make its escape, the others would grab it and haul it back down into the endless battle.

Every soul is a battlefield.