Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery. " Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!
The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.
Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the difference.
Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.
We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.
I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.
Within time, you get comfortable with yourself and with the unknown - that we're not going to know until that time comes. And that's enough for me. I wrestle with this a lot even now because I don't want to step on anyone's religion. My family is still very dedicated. At the same time, I take great issue with it when it starts defining policy or ultimately becomes separatist. . . . It's been the basis of our main conflicts throughout history.
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.
You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.