Quotes About Battle

If you fight the devil, you become him." "Maybe it takes a devil to fight a devil," I said. "But at the end of that fight, Bathsheba," he said, "don't only devils remain?

He's battling the Mayor, across some kind of sand-covered square in front of what looks like a chapel– And I get a sinking feeling of how many terrible things have happened to me and Todd in churches

I won the only duel I ever lost.

Gané el único duelo que he perdido.

Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever

After the battle was finished and the enemy was set beyond the doors of stone, survivors found Lanre's body, cold and lifeless near the beast he had slain.

Solo los bárbaros y los locos disfrutan con el combate.

He didn't have a religious or pious relationship with the church; it was aesthetic. The thrill of the battle between good and evil attracted him, perhaps because it mirrored his interior conflict, and revealed a line that he might yet need to cross.' p.16

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.

Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According

Ogni giorno è la stessa battaglia, lo stesso senso di vuoto, lo stesso desiderio di dimenticare e poi di non dimenticare. Quando ciò accade, è perché si è a questo punto, è solo quando si è toccato questo limite la penna comincia a scrivere. La storia inizia e si ferma, va avanti e poi si perde e, in mezzo a ogni parola, quanti silenzi, quante parole sfuggono e svaniscono per non essere mai più ritrovate.

Her attention drifted as a roaring filled her ears. Smoke was the smell of battle for all of history, smoke and blood and fear. I wonder how real it is to the masses on Earth who rely on us to keep them safe? The entire concept of war for most of the twenty billion Flatlanders was formed by thirty-second holocasts broadcast to their homes after dinner, smoke free.

The great battle of parenting is not the battle of behavior; it's the battle for what kind of awe will rule children's hearts.

This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

Ministry leadership is not a fortress against spiritual attack; it's the front line.

But here is the reality: all of the horizontal battles are the fruit of a deeper war. The most important war, the one that needs to be won, is not the war they are having with each other, but a war that wages within them individually. Real change is all about winning this war.

It was not puny little David against this awesome giant. No, it was this puny little giant against the God who is the sum and definition of all that is awesome.

There will be a moment when you will ask, "Where is courage to be found to face what I am facing?" Hezekiah gives you your answer: "Look up and remember your God." As God's child, you are never left to battle on your own.

it is true of every believer and that we live in a daily state of spiritual war and must therefore live with eyes open, heart engaged, mind alert, and protective gear in place

Ci sono momenti in cui penso che gli uomini nascano con il bisogno di combattere contro il male e che quando non riescono a trovare nulla di malavagio con cui lottare, se lo creino da soli. Istvan DiVega - Il ritorno del principe.

Indeed, in the huge opening battles to come, hundreds of thousands of German youths would hurl themselves at the French, British and Russian lines singing patriotic songs, shouting slogans and dying in terrific numbers.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It was a collective death and not a matter of bravery or even strength, and once it was down it was finished as a battle.

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