Contention – Quotes

Successful families try to

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention. Ezra Taft Benson

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that Only by pride cometh contention. Ezra Taft Benson

Pride does not look

Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is manifest in the spirit of contention. Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring … Read more

The free-trade idea, logically

The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove … Read more

The contention that a

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. Emma Goldman

Debate is the death

Debate is the death of conversation. Emil Ludwig

I often think that

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance. Elizabeth Montagu

Certainty is the mother

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions Edward Coke

Your denomination is not

Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention. Ed Stetzer

Can a one judge

Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of … Read more