Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
- St. John Chrysostom
You have seen, that the Properties of Nature are, and can be, nothing else in their own Life, but a restless Hunger, Disquiet, and blind Strife for they know not what, till the Property of Light and Love has got Possession of them.
- William Law
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
- Anne Hutchinson
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.