Strife or Quarreling

Strife or quarreling means fighting among individuals,even as war means fighting among peoples or nations. Strife comes from inordinate or perverse wills. It is therefore contrary to reason; it is a sin; it can be a mortal sin.

Strife, as here understood, is not a mere affair of words as contention is; it includes deeds intended to hurt or harm another. Strife is rightly called “the daughter of anger.”