Quotes about Dissension

Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should have foreseen or once suspected. He has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the Law but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.

We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else—even when we are unsure of our facts. We forget that "a man who stirs up dissension among brothers" by criticizing one to another is one of the "six things which the Lord hates" (Proverbs 6:16-19).

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, "An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.

A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

The equalization of fortunes may have some slight tendency to stifle animosity and to prevent dissension. But its effect is always inconsiderable, and often doubtful; since those who think themselves entitled to superiority will not patiently brook equality.

When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the scene of internal dissensions, and a local arbiter in consequence would be wanted.

An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.