There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
We don't know for a fact that Donald Trump did. We only think we know because it's been reported by how many unconfirmed, anonymous sources? Two scoops of ice cream, Trump's so selfish, guests only get one. The contrast is stark. Trump on this trip and the Trump in Washington. My contention is that Trump is Trump. What's different is the reporting.
One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don`t know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered.
Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.
Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
