Quotes about Mediation

Was Christ a chosen servant of God, and shall not we take God's choice? Is not God's choice the best and the wisest? Hath God chosen Christ to work our salvation, and shall we choose any other? Shall we run to saints' mediation, to the virgin Mary, and others, for intercession, which is a part of Christ's office? Who chose Mary, and Peter, and Paul to this work? There is no mention in Scripture of them for this purpose, but behold my servant, whom I have chosen.

But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

But Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed Me judge or executor between you?”

He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

As much as prayer must be to the Father, and through the Son, it must be by the Spirit. And the Spirit can pray in no other way in us, than as He lives in us. It is only as we give ourselves to the Spirit living and praying in us, that the glory of the prayer-hearing God, and the ever-blessed and most effectual mediation of the Son, can be known by us in their power.

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

Without the mediation of Christ, we will be tempted to overplay the distance and the distinction between God and humanity.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.