Quotes about Mediation

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

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.’

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

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

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

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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.

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

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

The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.

A secret dependence upon our prayers, tears, resolutions, repentance and endeavors, prevents us from looking solely and simply to the Savior, so as to ground our whole hope for acceptance upon his obedience unto death, and his whole mediation.