Contending Quotes

52 Contending quotes by 47 unique authors

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow. — Joseph Addison
What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace. — Unknown Author
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. — J C Ryle
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we… — Patrick Henry
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with… — D. H. Lawrence
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. — Brian Tracy
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases. — Abraham Lincoln
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone… — George Washington
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou… — John Owen
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive… — John William Draper
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling… — Pope Pius XII
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior… — George Washington
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour.… — Hannibal
Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some… — Howard Zinn
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to… — C. J. Mahaney
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the… — John Burgoyne
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to… — Patrick Henry
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes… — Chaim Potok
Pride is self contending with God for preeminence. — Stephen Charnock
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of… — Joseph Lancaster

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