Quotes About Battle

When you enforce virtue, you deny a woman's right to make an unacceptable choice with her own body. This conflict is old wine in new bottles; it is nothing less than the age-old battle between freedom and control.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

Deep down, I have come to the conclusion that the reason (children) are such a low priority to the great human institutions that seek to control this world, both secular and Christian, is that an invisible battle, a spiritual war, rages over each and every child. It is above us and beyond us and engages the full fury of the hosts of both heaven and hell. Children may be ignored by government, church, and mission – but not by Satan or God Almighty.

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

This is the battle of impulsiveness against spontaneity. Impulsiveness is brutal and destructive, because it is unconscious of the other and of the world. Spontaneity is full of grace, for it is granted immediately through consciousness to the reality of the environment.

Afghanistan. Jarrah

Nootropic drugs can be important weapons in the battle against premature degeneration,senility, and death.

Abu Jihad . . . Even now, the sound of

Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it's ever fought.

In all cases, life had already ceased for the patient. In fact, life had ceased before the code started. That was the time when the patient had stopped breathing or the heart had stopped beating. That was when the patient had really died. Yet we officially record the time of death as the moment when we adjourn our battle, not the moment the cells have adjourned theirs.

Dr Seraphina gazed at Gabriella with a cool, assessing eye. "What do you believe Gabriella?" "I believe that if we do not protect our traditions from those who would destroy them, soon there will be nothing left to interpret." "Ah, so you are a warrior, then," Dr Seraphina said, challenging Gabriella. "There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

For he – and this is truly what Central European writers do – drags around a terrible burden of linguistic and musical melodies; he hauls a piano and a dead horse behind him, along with everything that has been played on that piano and everything that the horse once bore into battle and to defeat – marble statues and bronze bearded busts, pictures in baroque frames, words and melodies that nobody can understand outside that language.

This might just be two people in a queue, but this has become a mighty battle of wills - a war between all that is right and all that is wrong - and it is I and I alone standing at the gates between one minor slight in the queue-munity, and outright supermarket-based anarchy. In many ways, I am doing this for you.

Even more than he regretted her opposition, he dreaded the drawing of battle lines between science and Scripture. Personally, he saw no conflict between the two.

In happier circumstances he also would enjoy watching this battle of brains, this scholarly free-for-all, with its air of sharpened quills, gutters running with ink, massacred hypotheses. Already

Sober, for Gods' sake? Fight sober? Jotnar think that's unmanly. That's worse cheating than using far-sight!

the Romans were one of the first to also place leaders behind their men in an open order of battle.

What battles have in common is the human: the behavior of men struggling to reconcile their instinct of self-preservation, their sense of honor and the achievement of some aim over which other men are ready to kill them. The study of battle is therefore always a study of fear and usually of courage, usually also of faith and sometimes vision. —Sir Herbert Butterfield Man On His Past

nodded again. "Exactly," he said. "According to Bible prophecy, that will be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on earth. The blood of the soldiers who die will run in streams, it says, as deep as a horse's bridle, but Israel will not be defeated." Sam looked up at him.

The Christian life is not easy. No responsible person ever said it was. It is a battle all the way. But it is a battle that will be won. And when it is won, we who have triumphed will cast our crowns at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, who worked in us to accomplish victory, and we will praise Him forever.

Most assume that having the Armor of God on in battle you live or you die and nothing in between while it's very possible that most are wounded in the spirit and still alive. In war many of us were wounded but came out alive because we had better armor then previous wars. We came back broken but not dead. It's how you take you being broken and what you do at that moment that determines your future and the impact you make to those around you

Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II.

the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

On the cusp of a smashing victory, a commander must keep his nerve or fail altogether.