Contending For The Faith Quotes & Sayings

It had a fellar call Five Past Twelve. A test look at him and say, 'Boy, you black like midnight.' Then the test take a second look and say, 'No, you more like Five Past Twelve. — Samuel Selvon

By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief ... — John Owen

Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'. — Bill Bixby

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. — Robin G. Collingwood

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other. — John William Draper

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

Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet. — Dean Cavanagh

That definitely wasn't a bunch of keys in your pocket getting jiggy with my thigh. I thought you were about to rip a hole in my jeans, you were grinding so hard. — Josephine Myles

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything. — Patricia Wentworth

I knew what slant of light would make you turn over. It was then I felt the highways slide out of my hands. I remembered the old men in the west side cafe, dealing dominoes like magical charms.
— Naomi Shihab Nye

It's diabolical." "It doesn't look all that bad to me." " 'Diabolical' means 'satanic,' sis." "Why's your maze so satanic, then?" "The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down a dead end, that's the end of you. That's why you have to learn the labyrinth by heart. — David Mitchell

The real deceivers are the literalists, who say, I cannot tell a lie. — Norman O. Brown

When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances. — Robert E. Murray

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison

Nothing on earth nor in the sky is hidden from God
Quran-Ibrahim(38) — Anonymous