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

We need more Contending and less Blending and Pretending — Joe Joe Dawson

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? — Jerome

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. — James Harvey Robinson

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases. — Abraham Lincoln

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very

The faith state ... is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction ... [p.272] — William James

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end — Homer

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. — J.C. Ryle

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. — Edmund Burke

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. — W. Edwards Deming

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. — H.G.Wells

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. — Mildred Cable

I have been contending all my life, and always with God. — Lincoln Steffens

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls. — George Orwell

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. — Joyce Carol Oates

Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. — William Shakespeare

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me. — Phil Mickelson

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week. — Lee Westwood

How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one? — Charles Dickens

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. — Robert A. Burton

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. — Abigail Adams

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

journal Science in 1980 contending that women are genetically inferior at mathematics. — Bill Bryson

What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace. — Thomas Bradwardine

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow. — Joseph Addison

But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense. — Shunryu Suzuki

Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk — G-Dragon

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. — Brian Tracy

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. — Will Rogers

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity. — G.I. Gurdjieff

I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. — Henry David Thoreau