Best conflict & enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.”

Should Self Use Hands Desire Energy Enemy Conflict Weapons Negative Possession Reputation Demon Attachment Frightened True Self Rejecting Negative Energy

Author:Teresa Giudice

“It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.”

Persons Made Real Running Christian Winning Heaven Race Enemy Sacrifice Arms Victory Battle Cost Conflict Standards Crosses Overcoming Conversion Chairs Wilderness Egypt Forsaken

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.”

Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

“The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.”

Spirit Enemy Conflict Concern Attacking Delighted Resisting Incessantly

Author:James O. Fraser

“Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.”

Men Self Reason Whole Grows Perfect Enemy Conditions Particular Solitude Conflict Contact Delusion Educate Sane Hobbies Conceit Oaks Collision Acorns Self Delusion

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.”

Mean Action Enemy Atheism Movement Conflict Mass Individuality Positive Atheism Mediums Collectives Followers Unification

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your future, listen, be good and learn" and "the school is your enemy. . . ." Children who receive the "school is the enemy" message often go after the enemy--act up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.”

Children Home School Parent Situation Enemy Teacher Exercise Conflict Messages Program Be Good My Children Our Future Your Future Veto

Author:James P. Comer

“Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.”

Needs Looks Nations Enemy Identity Depends Conflict Collectives Tribes Separateness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.”

Wells Soul Fighting Force Decision Enemy Needed Conflict Devotion Moses Petitions Fervor Valour Vehemence

Book:Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon

Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon

“Some countries such as Iran and Syria are using the commotion to distract attention from their own problems with the international community. The Palestinians, who have been deeply divided since their election, have found a common enemy in Denmark that unites them. Extremists and fundamentalists are exploiting the conflict to promote their radical agenda and win new members.”

“[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.”

Self Reason Hands Enemy Conflict Intellectual Serving Inquiry Avoidance Maidens Self Serving

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Two Different War Country Would Be Political Force Goal Enemy Air Keys Conflict Creating Rate Extremes Objectives Hardship Denied Geography Air Force Unleashed

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?”

Doe Order Enemy Achieve Victory Exercise Conflict Make Sense Remove

Author:John McCain

“I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.”

Thinking Wells Ends Enemy Changed Conflict Scales Motivated Afghanistan

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.”

Thinking World Looks Has Beens War States Happens America United Opinion Enemy United States Conflict Creating Mirrors Agree Starting Repeats Who We Are Strings

Author:Norman Lear

“[Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire.”

Interest Enemy Serious Trump Right Now Conflict Members Congress Journalist Empires Hunts Multinationals Conflict Of Interest

Author:Chuck Todd

“[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.”

People Ideas Political Enemy Violence Conflict Arguing Celebrate Dissent Putin

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli - freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of religion. The U.S. celebrates freedom of religion. Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places or ideas that are in conflict.”

People Ideas Political Enemy Violence Conflict Speech Presses Arguing Celebrate Freedom Of Speech Dissent Putin No Friends Freedom Of Religion Free Press

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.”

Giving Should Mind States Deals Enemy Poverty Morning Achieve Worst Circumstances Conflict Resources Inequality Evening State Of Mind Ups & Downs Worst Enemy

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence said that the purpose of literature was to expand our sympathies. To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. And this conflict cannot be easily reconciled. The tension is always there as a kind of a pain in the human condition.”

Men Giving Kind Dream Reality Pain Purpose Literature Enemy Conflict Agree Obligation Tension Human Condition

Author:John Updike

“When you are living with the exhortation or live-with "Be in the World But Not of It," you experience your connection with all and the possibility of co-creativity and collaboration with those around you. You see an oneness in the world as opposed to warfare, even with those who are your enemies. You are not of the world of conflict, even though you have the strength to deal with it and turn it around. You have compassion in the sense of seeing the highest in yourself and then seeing that in others.”

World Compassion Enemy Possibility Conflict Collaboration

Author:Michael Ray

“There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.”

Fighting Enemy Democracy Conflict

Author:Robert Baer

“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”

Wells Ends Responsibility Enemy Careers Position Circumstances One Day Conflict Structure Complexes Casts Thrown Patriotism Unusual Dissent Sense Of Responsibility Dissidents Branded

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how far I'm going to love,this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek."The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we're like Christ in everything We're left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.”

People Humanity Turns Choices Left Christ Enemy Walking Conflict Limits Tests Blame Angry Bitterness Cheeks Superficial Hypocrite Walking With God Turn The Other Cheek Inbreds

Author:Francis Frangipane

“How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?”

People Ifs Littles Persons Individual Enemy Praying Conflict Contemporary Reports Dislike Quarrels Opposing Irritating

Author:John Wooden

“Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.”

“When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”

Asks Sides Natural Enemy Blood Conflict Workers Flesh Policemen Flesh And Blood Natural Enemies

Book:Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.”

Ifs Men Firsts Character Use School Order Hurt Levels Enemy Greater Grace Willing Conflict Tests Deeper Accomplish Storm Kingdoms Preparation Bless Graduates Doubtful

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.”

Ifs Thinking Way Might Able Understanding Enemy Hero Conflict Rational Settling Heroic

Author:Sam Keen

“Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins.”

People Want Use Age Religion Enemy Atheism Middle Conflict East Middle East Biblical Fulfilled Prophecy New Age Confrontation Erase

Author:George W. Bush

“If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.”

Ifs World Mind Believe Heart Kind Home America Grows Enemy Greater Security Conflict Strategy Resolution Cooperation Fewer Diverse Heart And Mind If You Believe Win Win

Author:William J. Clinton

“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?”

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