Quotes about War
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
— David Livingstone Smith
Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.
— David Livingstone Smith
Automatically thinking 'everything that happens is God's will' is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn't fighting the Father's will when He raised the dead.
— Bill Johnson
God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.
— George W. Bush
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
— Abraham Lincoln
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
— Elie Wiesel
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
— Rick Warren
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
— CS Lewis
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
— Elton John
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
— George W. Bush