Ambition: Leads to Strife and Contention

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James 4:1,2
From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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The God of Peace
... God did not create this world for strife. ... there are five great enemies to peace"avarice,
ambition, envy, anger ... Error in doctrine leads to the most lamentable ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the god of peace.htm

A Treatise to Prove that no one Can Harm the Man who Does not ...
... sea, oftentimes beset by robbers, involved in strife with his ... every day, and digs
pitfalls and leads them to ... to make these things objects of ambition to those ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/a treatise to prove that.htm

Matt. xxiii. 1-3.
... was a cause of all the evils, even ambition, and the ... tends the wounds of the mutilated,
another leads the blind ... do there abundantly, and as the strife is great ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxxii matt xxiii 1-3.htm

Letter of Julius to the Eusebians at Antioch.
... if the author of it wrote with an ambition of exhibiting ... in spite of a bodily ailment;
which leads us to ... them to our communion, and so may cease this strife. ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/chapter ii letter of julius to.htm

An Exhortation to Peace and Unity
... Respect for the judgment of others leads me to allow ... Lot (Genesis 13): 'Let there
be no strife,' saith he ... My ambition of the public tranquility of the church of ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/an exhortation to peace and.htm

The English-Speaking Peoples: Action and Reaction
... which she has led the European nations and still leads. ... Coleridge had the ambition
to lay anew the foundations ... all the severity of theological strife befell him ...
/.../chapter vi the english-speaking peoples .htm

Homilies on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
... Gamaliel, appears free from ambition, [3364]417. ... Sensuality leads to hatred,
[3819]539. ... Strife, inconsistent in a Christian, [3866]497. ...
/.../homilies on the epistles to.htm

Regeneration by Faith. Of Repentance.
... answer, founded on the absurdities to which it leads. ... and incited to lust, avarice,
ambition, or other ... a fictitious representation, of the strife between the ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 3 regeneration by faith.htm

Abraham, his Trial in Egypt; his Humility
... 57]196; Rebecca's conduct, [58]196 (note); leads to same ... 299]398; pulled down by
envy and strife, [300]408 ... men's power, [618]50; needed for contention with bad ...
/.../abraham his trial in egypt.htm

Seasonable Counsel: Or, Advice to Sufferers.
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/seasonable counsel or advice to.htm

Subtopics

Ambition

Ambition: Aaron and Miriam

Ambition: Abimelech

Ambition: Absalom

Ambition: Adam and Eve

Ambition: Adonijah

Ambition: Ahithophel

Ambition: Antichrist

Ambition: Builders of Babel

Ambition: Christ Condemns

Ambition: Connected With: Covetousness