Quotes about Tension

Rich, collaborative, interdependent relationships between God's sons and daughters are vital to both genders and make the body of Christ stronger. The Blessed Alliance fuels the kingdom of God and must not be displaced by an atmosphere of tension, fear, and mistrust.

I come not to bring negative peace, but I come to bring positive peace. I come not to bring this old peace which is merely the absence of tension; I come to bring a positive peace which is the presence of justice and the Kingdom of God. Peace is not merely the absence of something, but it's the presence of something.

Our sense of humor is a gift from God that should be controlled as well as cultivated. Clean, wholesome humor will relax tension and relieve difficult situations. Leaders can use it to displace tension with a sense of normal.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

Dramatic tension is the real curse of the novel, because it transforms everything, even the most beautiful pages, even the most surprising scenes and observations merely into steps leading to the final resolution, in which the meaning of everything that preceded is concentrated.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

The same conclusion could be made about marriage. Every marriage has sorrows. Every marriage has trials. There isn't a shared bedroom in this country where tension doesn't occasionally or perhaps frequently lift its snarling head. Many a pillow has been a solemn receptacle for soul-felt tears, cried late at night or even all throughout the day. We don't get to choose which sorrows or trials we are called to bear, only that we must endure them.

Sideways force can be broken though by straight force. Straight force can be stopped by sideways force.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.