Quotes about Warfare
This renewal, indeed, is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by slow progress God abolishes the remains of carnal corruption in his elect, cleanses them from pollution, and consecrates them as his temples, restoring all their inclinations to real purity, so that during their whole lives they may practice repentance, and know that death is the only termination to this warfare.
— John Calvin
History is a bath of blood.
— William James
War is a defeat for humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not.
— Hilaire Belloc
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The details of how faith works in spiritual warfare are well known but easily forgotten.
— Edward Welch
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
— Andrew Jackson
Do you know that much of the Christian warfare consisteth in the combat between the flesh and the Spirit; and that is the very difference between a true Christian and a wicked wretch, that one liveth after the Spirit, and mortifieth the deeds and desires of the body, and the other liveth after the flesh?
— Richard Baxter
There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.
— Chuck Smith
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
— Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
— Charles Spurgeon
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
— Martin Luther