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contended

«The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend»
«Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: contended, nought
«Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? / Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.»
«Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: contended, forsaken
«The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.»
«No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.»
«Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.»
«We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle»

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