Contention Quote by Benjamin Whichcote Download Open image “There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.” — Benjamin Whichcote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contention Inspirational Love Religion Unnatural
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
