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He (God) permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.
- Jerry Bridges
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;
- Lewis Carroll
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
- Earl Nightingale
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
- Anonymous
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.
- Jan Hus
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
- Isabel Allende
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
- Barack Obama
Art is always tempted to glory in itself, and nearly every form of art has been used to communicate values that are contrary to Scripture. Art is as fallen as any other aspect of human existence. This fallenness perverts the arts against fulfilling their original purpose and prevents us from embracing them uncritically.
- Philip Graham Ryken
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Aldous Huxley
The Deist, therefore, who looks for Life and Salvation through the Use of his Reason, acts contrary to the whole Nature of every Thing that he sees and knows of himself and of the Nature and State of this World.
- William Law
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.
- Jonathan Goforth