Contentions Quotes

#1. Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it ... Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring
a race so moved must prevail.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

#2. Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers

Joseph Smith Jr.

#3. Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Felix Adler

#4. But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Homer

#5. There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

Benjamin Whichcote

#6. Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

John Calvin

#7. Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke

#8. What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

Abraham Cowley

#9. Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Philip Sidney

#10. Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

Walter Scott

#11. Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

Carl Sagan

#12. Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Charles Horton Cooley

#13. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#14. Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!

Richard Baxter

#15. We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.

Tamim Ansary

#17. Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you are responsible or if you aren't.

Kent Beck

#18. Forgiveness in God's eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness.

E'yen A. Gardner

#19. I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.

Pharoahe Monch

#20. Potentially, you always have much more in the unseen world than you do in reality.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. He was convinced that the best way to become acquainted with God is through love and that there is no authentic scientia Christi without falling in love with him.

Pope Benedict XVI

#22. The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#23. I've learned not to worry about what might come next.

Oprah Winfrey

#24. What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

Jo Brand

#25. I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#26. We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

Richard Brautigan