Quotes about Contention

He lambastes Catholics. He opposes the J. B. Phillips version of the Bible because Phillips had a friendship with C. S. Lewis, who drank beer and smoked a pipe.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

I cannot bear with laws for the interpretation of the word of God, since the word of God, which teaches liberty in all other things, ought not to be bound. Saving these two things, there is nothing which I am not able, and most heartily willing, to do or to suffer. I hate contention; I will challenge no one; in return I wish not to be challenged; but, being challenged, I will not be dumb in the cause of Christ my Master.

Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”