Quotes about Tension

Gimme eat, I said," he ordered loudly in harsh tones that rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder.

In practice, I suggest that it is the liturgy that is to enact the settled coherence of church faith, and the sermon that provides the "alien" witness of the text, which rubs against the liturgic coherence.118 There can, in my judgment, be no final resolution of the tension between the systemizing task of theology and the disruptive work of biblical interpretation. It is the ongoing interaction between the two that is the work of interpretation.

The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name

Some people seem to be at peace-but in fact they're just resting up between fights.

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.