Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest…

— Frances Wright

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of…

— Joseph Henry

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on…

— Seth Green

Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though…

— Alexander Hamilton

Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

— Malachi Martin

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

— Dallin H. Oaks

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or…

— Garry Winogrand

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

— Matthew Arnold