Outward
Conflicts can be the result of inner turmoil.
James 4:1 -Message Translation
Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come
from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about
because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves.
Words
from wise scholars:
The
more the Holy Spirit reigns within, the more intensified becomes
the conflict.
--FRANCES J. ROBERTS
There are other important things in life besides conflict, but
there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The
very saints interest us most when we think of them as engaged
in a conflict with the devil.
--ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND (1892–1970)
Whatever we have achieved in character we have achieved through
conflict.
--J. WALLACE HAMILTON
You are but a poor soldier of Christ if you think you can overcome
without fighting, and suppose you can have the crown without the
conflict.
--SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (C. 347–407)
Provocative
words from Jesus about conflict in life due to faith
( Luke 12:49-53 -Message Translation)
"I've come to start a fire on this earth—how I wish
it were blazing right now! I've come to change everything, turn
everything rightside up—how I long for it to be finished!
Do you think I came to smooth things over and make everything
nice? Not so. I've come to disrupt and confront! From now on,
when you find five in a house, it will be—
Three against two,
and two against three;
Father against son,
and son against father;
Mother against daughter,
and daughter against mother;
Mother-in-law against bride,
and bride against mother-in-law."
