Quotes about Confrontation

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

I never had the nerve to go up to him. I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, Hello, Reverend Thomas, I would choke on the sin of mocking him.

We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But I will rebuke you and lay out the case before you. Psalm 50:21

Don't You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?" But He kept silent and did not answer anything. Mark 14:60—61

They saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them… . He asked, "What are you arguing with them about?" Mark 9:14, 16

Yielding to His authority and affections makes no small difference in our judgment (1 Corinthians 2:12-16). When we look through spiritual eyes, we can see fruit for what it is—we can distinguish between pride and confidence, between self-abasement and humility, between contentiousness and healthy confrontation.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

The Bible says, "How can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man?" (Matthew 12:29). In other words, we can't have any effect in the devil's territory unless we first bind him and forbid him any authority there.

There is nothing more unloving than to be silent in the face of lies that will ruin another person.

Sooner or later we must leave our dream world and face up to the facts of God, sin, and judgment. The Bible says, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23 NIV].