Strife: Saints should Avoid

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Genesis 13:8
And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we be brothers.
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Ephesians 4:3
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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Library

But God Wanted not Power to Make Man Such as that He Should Not...
... rather to make him such, as that it should lie in ... also at the last will He makes
His Saints, as to ... in His perfect and eternal peace, without any strife of evil ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on continence/section 16 but god wanted.htm

Instructions and Counsels to Confessors and Spiritual Directors.
... great a Ministry; and that should be the Saints to whom ... much as in case of Sickness,
unless he should indeed be ... because the Devil loves to make strife with the ...
/.../chap vi instructions and counsels.htm

On the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
... The Saints, if they could, would cry aloud and weep tears ... He should always think
that another is more likely to be right than he, and thus avoid strife. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tauler/the inner way/sermon xx on the exaltation.htm

We Shall not be Curious in the Ranking of the Duties in which ...
... of truth, but accompanied with envying, bitter strife, rigid judging ... I find the saints
and fearers of God ... in our hand, which every man should faithfully restore ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/chapter iv we shall not.htm

Letter xvii. --Remorse and Rebellion.
... is nothing else than that inner strife spoken of ... flesh against the spirit." None
of the saints have been ... One should repeat continually to anyone in this state ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/letter xvii remorse and rebellion.htm

Letter i. The Christian's Mark.
... are not to be expected without great labor and strife. ... The attainments of eminent
saints are too generally looked ... of holy affections; and we should never rest ...
/.../letter i the christians mark.htm

Concerning Peaceableness
... Christians contending, commanded them that they should not take ... seldom thrives where
the apple of strife grows. ... The saints are compared to living stones, built ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/18 concerning peaceableness.htm

On Christian Doctrine In Four Books.
... Actions Which are Ascribed to God and the Saints, and Which ... Chapter 26.--In Every
Style the Orator Should Aim at Perspicuity ... What is Meant by Strife About Words ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on christian doctrine in four books /

Differences in Judgment About Water Baptism, no Bar to Communion ...
... 15); because they used them "for strife, and debate ... for their right to communion
of saints, so that ... Further, suppose I should grant this groundless notion, Were ...
/.../the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/differences in judgment about water.htm

Concerning Lowliness of Mind.
... her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and stand ... hear what it is that he desires
they should know. ... he said, "Some indeed through envy and strife are preaching ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/concerning lowliness of mind.htm

Subtopics

Strife

Strife: A Work of the Flesh

Strife: Abimelech's

Strife: An Evidence of a Carnal Spirit

Strife: Appeased by Slowness to Anger

Strife: Between Abraham and Lot's Herdsmen

Strife: Christ, an Example of Avoiding

Strife: Christians at Antioch (In Syria), About Circumcision

Strife: Corinthians

Strife: Danger of Joining In--Illustrated

Strife: Difficulty of Stopping, a Reason for Avoiding It