Quotes about Confrontation
Just because the truth disturbs someone doesn't make speaking that truth hate speech.
— Ted Dekker
The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.
— Frank Peretti
But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft and true witnesses without being manipulative.
— Brennan Manning
The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.
— Brennan Manning
Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways." Deuteronomy 28:7
— Henry Blackaby
It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.
— Marianne Williamson
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
— Frederick Buechner
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's non-white man.
— Malcolm X
What confronts us, now the excitement's over, is our own failure.
— Margaret Atwood