“People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsLooksMayWarStatesNumbersCasesThousandConflictDown AndAverageGenocideFewerInvolvingKoreanHigh PointsKorean War Author:Andrew Mack
“Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.” Has BeensNamesStrongGivenGrowsLordDangerBearsThousandConflictGoodnessDegreesLowsDown AndSafetyRaisedCastsAppearanceProofWoundedAssuranceGiven UpHealedHabitualPower Of God Book:The Voice of the Heart Source: The Voice of the Heart
“I don't know if it's still taboo in our culture but counseling is a great thing because sometimes you need someone from the outside to sit down and go over whatever the questions or conflicts are and come to a resolution.” IfsKnowsNeedsStillsSometimesCultureConflictDown AndGreat ThingsResolutionTabooCounseling Author:Gabrielle Dennis
“Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles coming into tension, into conflict with one another, our goal as Americans is to sit down and try to see if we can uphold both.” IfsTryingTwoImportantGoalReligiousPrinciplesConflictDown AndCoreTensionReligious FreedomGreat American Author:Charles Haynes
“I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.” ThinkingNeedsBookDoneWatchesEasierConflictDown AndScreensVideoContemplating Author:Chinua Achebe
“I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.” IfsThinkingKindHardViolenceHard WorkConflictConceptsDown AndPrivilegeCompromiseArroganceResolveEntitlementSense Of Entitlement Author:Michael Moore
“What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.” WorldHas BeensEndsProblemRealityViewsSituationPrinciplesDoubtHappenedConflictDown AndUpside DownDoubtersVantage PointBad ExperiencesTopsy Turvy Author:Os Guinness