Quotes about Contempt
And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
— Isaiah 16:14
Do not argue at all with the devil and his temptations or accusations and arguments, nor, by the example of Christ, refute them. Just keep silent altogether; turn away and hold him in contempt. For no one conquers the devil by arguing with him, since he is incomparably more clever than all of us. But if you should not fight with the devil, much less should you do it with man. Rather you should put up with him, because he does not do the work himself, but the devil uses man as his tool.
— Martin Luther
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.
— Steven Pressfield
In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
— Matthew 27:41
An immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations.
— Nelson Mandela
Love is the opposite of anger. Anger is disdain, hatred, and contempt.
— Edward Welch
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
— Martin Luther
The cause of this is not the rage and wickedness of the devil, nor that of the hordes of his Mohammed, but the damnable ingratitude and contempt for the Gospel on the part of those who have it but do not seriously care about it and see to it that they retain it.
— Martin Luther
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
— Isaiah 14:4
not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
— Numbers 14:23
But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
— Numbers 16:30
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
— Psalm 22:7