Argument Quote by Jean de La Fontaine Download Open image “Religious contention is the devil's harvest.” — Jean de La Fontaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Contention Devil Harvest Religion Religious
It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable. — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.- — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows… — Stephen F Olford Copy Share Image
The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
