Quotes about Conflict

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.

The Charter of the United Nations said in its preamble: "We the people determined to save succeeding generations from war..." Can the United Nations save the world from war? The answer is No! It was conceived and created by statesmen who knew little of the significance of the biblical concept of history and the nature of man. When the perspective is wrong, the whole viewpoint will be wrong.

The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world... is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.

Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.

Sometimes I think the truly committed Christian is in conflict with society around him more than any other person. Society is going one direction, and the Christian is going in the opposite direction. This brings about friction and conflict. But God has promised, in the midst of trouble and conflict, a genuine peace, a sense of assurance and security, that the worldly person never knows.

Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world.

War is only one facet of the larger problem of evil which has been with the human race since the beginning...This same evil tried to destroy the greatest human being who ever lived, nailing Him to a cross.

If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along," one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.

When you are told that science has disproved the Bible, ask specifically where such is the case. True science and a true understanding of the Bible are never at variance.

I do not understand what I do... For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. —Romans 7:15, 19

I will buy you back with My blood because I love you. I will free you from the chains of sin. I will settle the conflict within and give peace to your soul. But you must come to Me with a repentant heart. You must be willing to be redeemed. You must exchange your sin-blackened heart for a new heart that is cleansed by My blood.

We don't have to be on the battlefields of the world to experience strife and conflict. We need only to open our eyes each morning and read the headlines, we need only to turn a keen ear when our phones ring with bad news, we need only to open our hearts to those next door—and maybe even in our own homes—to notice those with grieving hearts.