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“I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.”

“In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.”

Heart Littles Hard Winning Conflict Argument

Author:Matt Chandler

“Being in relationship is not living in a fantasyland and don`t think that everything's going to be perfect all the time. You will go through phases where you're just not getting along. You're not communicating well. That's going to happen, and it's going to feel impossible to you sometimes. It might not even make sense to you sometimes. Arguments are normal. You have to be patient and sit through that and remember that this is a part of human communication and interaction. You're going to have these conflicts with anyone. It's not necessarily just that person.”

“Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.”

Men Two War Saws Military Becoming Conflict Argument Warm Instance Shooting Rude Disputes Convincing

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.”

Art Views Identity Conflict Argument Arguing Followers Supporter No Point Partisans

Author:Michael Lewis

“A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.”

War Reason Fighting House Power Republican Cost Conflict Members Weapons Argument Congress Seats Assault Bans Nra Assault Weapons Assault Weapons Ban

Author:William J. Clinton

“There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.”

Knows Moving Creative One Thing Conflict Argument Unhappy Exhausted

Author:Jack Nicholson

“There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.”

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”

“There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.”

Years Two Together Three Conflict Argument Vote

Author:David Zucker

“Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.”

People Thinking Reality Lying Differences Simple Truth Is Conflict Argument Objectives Objective Reality

Author:Martin Luther

“The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.”

People World Way Mind Done Culture Balance Conflict Approach Argument Scales Best Way Assumption Opposition Urges Agreement Cooperation Frame Of Mind

Author:Deborah Tannen

“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.”

“I am also full of admiration for Chelsea Manning [formerly PFC Bradley Manning]. Regardless of which side of the argument you're on, he stood up for something he felt wasn't right. That was an extraordinarily brave thing to do, and I think he was unfairly punished for it. It's a really big deal what he did, and he did it for the betterment of all us, including the soldiers on the ground, as well as the civilians caught up in those conflicts.”

“The children don't choose to be in the business, but the harming and long-term effects through arguments, divorce and conflicts over the financial issues in a business are huge.”

Children Long Term Issues Effects Huge Conflict Argument Financial Divorce Long Term

Author:Robert Irvine

“The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't. The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, like Iraq and Afghanistan, things don't go as expected.”

People Choices Difficult Conflict Argument Humanitarian Zone Afghanistan Get Involved

Author:Michael Hastings

“There's a lot of disputes around the world, a lot of territorial conflicts around the world. But Israel is the only country in the world whose capital is not recognized. I don't think the United States recognizing Jerusalem as a capital will prevent any sort of peace agreement from happening in the future. It's not actually a sensible argument. What it will do is it will right a historic wrong. Something that should have happened 69 years ago will finally happen. And then we have to get about the process of trying to advance peace between the parties.”

Thinking World Trying Country Party Conflict Argument Sensible Historic

Author:Ron Dermer

“I spent so much time at Escuela Caribe denying my true emotions and avoiding conflict that I became unsure of what my feelings really were. This is something that affects me to this day. I feel extremely uncomfortable during arguments, to the point of shutting down and not saying anything, like a turtle retracting into its shell. I can't stand conflict.”

Feelings Emotion Conflict Argument Uncomfortable This Day Avoiding Unsure

Author:Julia Scheeres

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”

Needs Humans Ideas Conflict Argument Innovation Debate Good Ideas Interaction Ideas And Innovation Research And Innovation

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.”

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”

Kind Philosophy Political Literature Can Do Numbers Wise Conflict Jokes Argument Dull Enlightening

Book:Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor: A Lifetime Collection of Favorite Jokes, Anecdotes, and Limericks with Copious Notes on how to Tell Them and why

Source: Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor: A Lifetime Collection of Favorite Jokes, Anecdotes, and Limericks with Copious Notes on how to Tell Them and why

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”

War Matter Hate Turns Sides Differences Opinion Issues One Thing Conflict Argument Unwind Differences Of Opinion

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”

Men Religion Impossible Atheism Humility Ignorance Conflict Argument Defeat Ignorant Stupidity And Ignorance Stupid Men Being Ignorant

Book:Crowded years: the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo

Source: Crowded years: the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.”

Giving Feels Opportunity Courage Missing Conflict Argument Criticism Encouragement Praise Notes Appreciation Flattery

Author:George Burton Adams

“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”

Two Party Battle Conflict Argument Philosophical Quarrels Deserted Pumpkin Desertion

Author:Seneca the Elder

“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.”

Heart May Understanding Clear Conflict Judgment Argument Anger Guides Wit Heat Contests Animosity

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.”

“Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”

Humans Politics Natural Dangerous Truth Is Conflict Weapons Argument Errors Debate Sufficient Antagonist

Author:Thomas Jefferson