"Pride is self contending with God for preeminence." — Stephen Charnock

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• 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 ...… — 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… — Patrick Henry
• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out… — D. H. Lawrence
• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow… — Brian Tracy
• Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying… — Abraham Lincoln
• While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others,… — George Washington
• By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest… — John Owen
• The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of… — John William Draper
• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an… — E. M. Forster
• Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only… — Pope Pius XII

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